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- v 0.5 18 Oct 1996 Dan Shearer Dan.Shearer@unisa.edu.au
- First linuxdoc-sgml version, outline only
- v 0.6 25 Oct 1996 Dan
- Filled in from current text faq
- v 0.7 1 June 1997 Paul
- Replicated changes in txt faq to sgml faq
- 9 June 1997 Paul
- Lots of changes, added doco list, updated compatible systems list
- added NT SP3 entry, added Year 2000 entry, Getting ready for 1.9.17
- v 0.8 7th Oct 97 Paul
- changed samba.canberra entries to samba.anu.../samba/
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-
-<article>
-
-<title> Samba FAQ
-
-<author>Paul Blackman, <tt>ictinus@samba.org</tt>
-<author>Jelmer Vernooij, <tt>jelmer@samba.org</tt>
-
-<date>v 1.0, August 2002
-
-<abstract> This is the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document for
-Samba, the free and very popular SMB server product. An SMB server
-allows file and printer connections from clients such as Windows,
-OS/2, Linux and others. Current to version 3.0. Please send any
-corrections to the author.
-</abstract>
-
-<toc>
-
-<sect> General Information<p> <label id="general_info">
-
-All about Samba - what it is, how to get it, related sources of
-information, how to understand the version numbering scheme, pizza
-details
-
-<sect1> What is Samba? <p> <label id="introduction">
-Samba is a suite of programs which work together to allow clients to
-access to a server's filespace and printers via the SMB (Server
-Message Block) protocol. Initially written for Unix, Samba now also
-runs on Netware, OS/2 and VMS.
-
-In practice, this means that you can redirect disks and printers to
-Unix disks and printers from Lan Manager clients, Windows for
-Workgroups 3.11 clients, Windows NT clients, Linux clients and OS/2
-clients. There is also a generic Unix client program supplied as part
-of the suite which allows Unix users to use an ftp-like interface to
-access filespace and printers on any other SMB servers. This gives the
-capability for these operating systems to behave much like a LAN
-Server or Windows NT Server machine, only with added functionality and
-flexibility designed to make life easier for administrators.
-
-The components of the suite are (in summary):
-
-<itemize>
-<item><bf>smbd</bf>, the SMB server. This handles actual connections from clients, doing all the file, permission and username work
-<item><bf>nmbd</bf>, the Netbios name server, which helps clients locate servers, doing the browsing work and managing domains as this capability is being built into Samba
-<item><bf>smbclient</bf>, the Unix-hosted client program
-<item><bf>smbrun</bf>, a little 'glue' program to help the server run external programs
-<item><bf>testprns</bf>, a program to test server access to printers
-<item><bf>testparms</bf>, a program to test the Samba configuration file for correctness
-<item><bf>smb.conf</bf>, the Samba configuration file
-<item><bf>smbprint</bf>, a sample script to allow a Unix host to use smbclient to print to an SMB server
-<item><bf>Documentation!</bf> DON'T neglect to read it - you will save a great deal of time!
-</itemize>
-
-The suite is supplied with full source (of course!) and is GPLed.
-
-The primary creator of the Samba suite is Andrew Tridgell. Later
-versions incorporate much effort by many net.helpers. The man pages
-and this FAQ were originally written by Karl Auer.
-
-<sect1> What is the current version of Samba? <p><label id="current_version">
-At time of writing, the current version was 1.9.17. If you want to be
-sure check the bottom of the change-log file. <url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log">
-
-For more information see <ref id="version_nums" name="What do the
-version numbers mean?">
-
-<sect1> Where can I get it? <p> <label id="where">
-The Samba suite is available via anonymous ftp from
-samba.org. The latest and greatest versions of the suite are in
-the directory:
-
-/pub/samba/
-
-Development (read "alpha") versions, which are NOT necessarily stable
-and which do NOT necessarily have accurate documentation, are
-available in the directory:
-
-/pub/samba/alpha
-
-Note that binaries are NOT included in any of the above. Samba is
-distributed ONLY in source form, though binaries may be available from
-other sites. Recent versions of some Linux distributions, for example,
-do contain Samba binaries for that platform.
-
-<sect1> What do the version numbers mean? <p> <label id="version_nums">
-It is not recommended that you run a version of Samba with the word
-"alpha" in its name unless you know what you are doing and are willing
-to do some debugging. Many, many people just get the latest
-recommended stable release version and are happy. If you are brave, by
-all means take the plunge and help with the testing and development -
-but don't install it on your departmental server. Samba is typically
-very stable and safe, and this is mostly due to the policy of many
-public releases.
-
-How the scheme works:
-<enum>
-<item>When major changes are made the version number is increased. For
-example, the transition from 1.9.15 to 1.9.16. However, this version
-number will not appear immediately and people should continue to use
-1.9.15 for production systems (see next point.)
-
-<item>Just after major changes are made the software is considered
-unstable, and a series of alpha releases are distributed, for example
-1.9.16alpha1. These are for testing by those who know what they are
-doing. The "alpha" in the filename will hopefully scare off those who
-are just looking for the latest version to install.
-
-<item>When Andrew thinks that the alphas have stabilised to the point
-where he would recommend new users install it, he renames it to the
-same version number without the alpha, for example 1.9.16.
-
-<item>Inevitably bugs are found in the "stable" releases and minor patch
-levels are released which give us the pXX series, for example 1.9.16p2.
-</enum>
-So the progression goes:
-<verb>
- 1.9.15p7 (production)
- 1.9.15p8 (production)
- 1.9.16alpha1 (test sites only)
- :
- 1.9.16alpha20 (test sites only)
- 1.9.16 (production)
- 1.9.16p1 (production)
-</verb>
-The above system means that whenever someone looks at the samba ftp
-site they will be able to grab the highest numbered release without an
-alpha in the name and be sure of getting the current recommended
-version.
-
-<sect1> What platforms are supported? <p> <label id="platforms">
-Many different platforms have run Samba successfully. The platforms
-most widely used and thus best tested are Linux and SunOS.
-
-At time of writing, the Makefile claimed support for:
-<itemize>
-<item> A/UX 3.0
-<item> AIX
-<item> Altos Series 386/1000
-<item> Amiga
-<item> Apollo Domain/OS sr10.3
-<item> BSDI
-<item> B.O.S. (Bull Operating System)
-<item> Cray, Unicos 8.0
-<item> Convex
-<item> DGUX.
-<item> DNIX.
-<item> FreeBSD
-<item> HP-UX
-<item> Intergraph.
-<item> Linux with/without shadow passwords and quota
-<item> LYNX 2.3.0
-<item> MachTen (a unix like system for Macintoshes)
-<item> Motorola 88xxx/9xx range of machines
-<item> NetBSD
-<item> NEXTSTEP Release 2.X, 3.0 and greater (including OPENSTEP for Mach).
-<item> OS/2 using EMX 0.9b
-<item> OSF1
-<item> QNX 4.22
-<item> RiscIX.
-<item> RISCOs 5.0B
-<item> SEQUENT.
-<item> SCO (including: 3.2v2, European dist., OpenServer 5)
-<item> SGI.
-<item> SMP_DC.OSx v1.1-94c079 on Pyramid S series
-<item> SONY NEWS, NEWS-OS (4.2.x and 6.1.x)
-<item> SUNOS 4
-<item> SUNOS 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 (Solaris 2.2, 2.3, and '2.4 and later')
-<item> Sunsoft ISC SVR3V4
-<item> SVR4
-<item> System V with some berkely extensions (Motorola 88k R32V3.2).
-<item> ULTRIX.
-<item> UNIXWARE
-<item> UXP/DS
-</itemize>
-
-<sect1> How can I find out more about Samba? <p> <label id="more">
-There are a number of places to look for more information on Samba, including:
-<itemize>
-<item>Two mailing lists devoted to discussion of Samba-related matters.
-<item>The newsgroup, comp.protocols.smb, which has a great deal of discussion on Samba.
-<item>The WWW site 'SAMBA Web Pages' at <url url="http://samba.edu.au/samba/"> includes:
- <itemize>
- <item>Links to man pages and documentation, including this FAQ
- <item>A comprehensive survey of Samba users.
- <item>A searchable hypertext archive of the Samba mailing list.
- <item>Links to Samba source code, binaries, and mirrors of both.
- </itemize>
-<item>The long list of topic documentation. These files can be found in the 'docs' directory of the Samba source, or at <url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/">
- <itemize>
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/Application_Serving.txt" name="Application_Serving.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/BROWSING.txt" name="BROWSING.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/BUGS.txt" name="BUGS.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/DIAGNOSIS.txt" name="DIAGNOSIS.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/DNIX.txt" name="DNIX.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/DOMAIN.txt" name="DOMAIN.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/DOMAIN_CONTROL.txt" name="CONTROL.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/ENCRYPTION.txt" name="ENCRYPTION.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/Faxing.txt" name="Faxing.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/GOTCHAS.txt" name="GOTCHAS.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/HINTS.txt" name="HINTS.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/INSTALL.sambatar" name="INSTALL.sambatar">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/INSTALL.txt" name="INSTALL.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/MIRRORS" name="MIRRORS">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/NetBIOS.txt" name="NetBIOS.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/OS2.txt" name="OS2.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/PROJECTS" name="PROJECTS">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/Passwords.txt" name="Passwords.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/Printing.txt" name="Printing.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/README.DCEDFS" name="README.DCEDFS">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/README.OS2" name="README.OS2">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/README.jis" name="README.jis">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/README.sambatar" name="README.sambatar">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/SCO.txt" name="SCO.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/SMBTAR.notes" name="SMBTAR.notes">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/Speed.txt" name="Speed.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/Support.txt" name="Support.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/THANKS" name="THANKS">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/Tracing.txt" name="Tracing.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/UNIX-SMB.txt" name="SMB.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/Warp.txt" name="Warp.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/WinNT.txt" name="WinNT.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/history" name="history">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/security_level.txt" name="level.txt">
- <item><url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/wfw_slip.htm" name="slip.htm">
- </itemize>
-</itemize>
-
-<sect1>How do I subscribe to the Samba Mailing Lists?<p><label id="mailinglist">
-Send email to <htmlurl url="mailto:listproc@samba.org" name="listproc@samba.org">. Make sure the subject line is
-blank, and include the following two lines in the body of the message:
-<tscreen><verb>
-subscribe samba Firstname Lastname
-subscribe samba-announce Firstname Lastname
-</verb></tscreen>
-Obviously you should substitute YOUR first name for "Firstname" and
-YOUR last name for "Lastname"! Try not to send any signature stuff, it
-sometimes confuses the list processor.
-
-The samba list is a digest list - every eight hours or so it
-regurgitates a single message containing all the messages that have
-been received by the list since the last time and sends a copy of this
-message to all subscribers.
-
-If you stop being interested in Samba, please send another email to
-<htmlurl url="mailto:listproc@samba.org" name="listproc@samba.org">. Make sure the subject line is blank, and
-include the following two lines in the body of the message:
-<tscreen><verb>
-unsubscribe samba
-unsubscribe samba-announce
-</verb></tscreen>
-The <bf>From:</bf> line in your message <em>MUST</em> be the same address you used when
-you subscribed.
-
-<sect1> Something's gone wrong - what should I do? <p> <label id="wrong">
-<bf>[#] *** IMPORTANT! *** [#]</bf>
-<p>DO NOT post messages on mailing lists or in newsgroups until you have
-carried out the first three steps given here!
-
-Firstly, see if there are any likely looking entries in this FAQ! If
-you have just installed Samba, have you run through the checklist in
-<url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/DIAGNOSIS.txt" name="DIAGNOSIS.txt">? It can save you a lot of time and effort.
-DIAGNOSIS.txt can also be found in the docs directory of the Samba distribution.
-
-Secondly, read the man pages for smbd, nmbd and smb.conf, looking for
-topics that relate to what you are trying to do.
-
-Thirdly, if there is no obvious solution to hand, try to get a look at
-the log files for smbd and/or nmbd for the period during which you
-were having problems. You may need to reconfigure the servers to
-provide more extensive debugging information - usually level 2 or
-level 3 provide ample debugging info. Inspect these logs closely,
-looking particularly for the string "Error:".
-
-Fourthly, if you still haven't got anywhere, ask the mailing list or
-newsgroup. In general nobody minds answering questions provided you
-have followed the preceding steps. It might be a good idea to scan the
-archives of the mailing list, which are available through the Samba
-web site described in the previous
-section.
-
-If you successfully solve a problem, please mail the FAQ maintainer a
-succinct description of the symptom, the problem and the solution, so
-I can incorporate it in the next version.
-
-If you make changes to the source code, _please_ submit these patches
-so that everyone else gets the benefit of your work. This is one of
-the most important aspects to the maintainence of Samba. Send all
-patches to <htmlurl url="mailto:samba-patches@samba.org" name="samba-patches@samba.org">. Do not send patches to Andrew Tridgell or any
-other individual, they may be lost if you do.
-
-<sect1> Pizza supply details <p> <label id="pizza">
-Those who have registered in the Samba survey as "Pizza Factory" will
-already know this, but the rest may need some help. Andrew doesn't ask
-for payment, but he does appreciate it when people give him
-pizza. This calls for a little organisation when the pizza donor is
-twenty thousand kilometres away, but it has been done.
-
-Method 1: Ring up your local branch of an international pizza chain
-and see if they honour their vouchers internationally. Pizza Hut do,
-which is how the entire Canberra Linux Users Group got to eat pizza
-one night, courtesy of someone in the US
-
-Method 2: Ring up a local pizza shop in Canberra and quote a credit
-card number for a certain amount, and tell them that Andrew will be
-collecting it (don't forget to tell him.) One kind soul from Germany
-did this.
-
-Method 3: Purchase a pizza voucher from your local pizza shop that has
-no international affiliations and send it to Andrew. It is completely
-useless but he can hang it on the wall next to the one he already has
-from Germany :-)
-
-Method 4: Air freight him a pizza with your favourite regional
-flavours. It will probably get stuck in customs or torn apart by
-hungry sniffer dogs but it will have been a noble gesture.
-
-<sect>Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host<p><label id="unix_install">
-
-<sect1>I can't see the Samba server in any browse lists!<p><label id="no_browse">
- See <url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/BROWSING.txt" name="BROWSING.txt">
- for more information on browsing. Browsing.txt can also be found
- in the docs directory of the Samba source.
-
-If your GUI client does not permit you to select non-browsable
-servers, you may need to do so on the command line. For example, under
-Lan Manager you might connect to the above service as disk drive M:
-thusly:
-<tscreen><verb>
- net use M: \\mary\fred
-</verb></tscreen>
-The details of how to do this and the specific syntax varies from
-client to client - check your client's documentation.
-
-<sect1>Some files that I KNOW are on the server doesn't show up when I view the files from my client! <p> <label id="missing_files">
-See the next question.
-<sect1>Some files on the server show up with really wierd filenames when I view the files from my client! <p> <label id="strange_filenames">
-If you check what files are not showing up, you will note that they
-are files which contain upper case letters or which are otherwise not
-DOS-compatible (ie, they are not legal DOS filenames for some reason).
-
-The Samba server can be configured either to ignore such files
-completely, or to present them to the client in "mangled" form. If you
-are not seeing the files at all, the Samba server has most likely been
-configured to ignore them. Consult the man page smb.conf(5) for
-details of how to change this - the parameter you need to set is
-"mangled names = yes".
-
-<sect1>My client reports "cannot locate specified computer" or similar<p><label id="cant_see_server">
-This indicates one of three things: You supplied an incorrect server
-name, the underlying TCP/IP layer is not working correctly, or the
-name you specified cannot be resolved.
-
-After carefully checking that the name you typed is the name you
-should have typed, try doing things like pinging a host or telnetting
-to somewhere on your network to see if TCP/IP is functioning OK. If it
-is, the problem is most likely name resolution.
-
-If your client has a facility to do so, hardcode a mapping between the
-hosts IP and the name you want to use. For example, with Lan Manager
-or Windows for Workgroups you would put a suitable entry in the file
-LMHOSTS. If this works, the problem is in the communication between
-your client and the netbios name server. If it does not work, then
-there is something fundamental wrong with your naming and the solution
-is beyond the scope of this document.
-
-If you do not have any server on your subnet supplying netbios name
-resolution, hardcoded mappings are your only option. If you DO have a
-netbios name server running (such as the Samba suite's nmbd program),
-the problem probably lies in the way it is set up. Refer to Section
-Two of this FAQ for more ideas.
-
-By the way, remember to REMOVE the hardcoded mapping before further
-tests :-)
-
-<sect1>My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar<p> <label id="cant_see_share">
-This message indicates that your client CAN locate the specified
-server, which is a good start, but that it cannot find a service of
-the name you gave.
-
-The first step is to check the exact name of the service you are
-trying to connect to (consult your system administrator). Assuming it
-exists and you specified it correctly (read your client's docs on how
-to specify a service name correctly), read on:
-
-<itemize>
-<item> Many clients cannot accept or use service names longer than eight characters.
-<item> Many clients cannot accept or use service names containing spaces.
-<item> Some servers (not Samba though) are case sensitive with service names.
-<item> Some clients force service names into upper case.
-</itemize>
-
-<sect1>My client reports "cannot find domain controller", "cannot log on to the network" or similar <p> <label id="cant_see_net">
-Nothing is wrong - Samba does not implement the primary domain name
-controller stuff for several reasons, including the fact that the
-whole concept of a primary domain controller and "logging in to a
-network" doesn't fit well with clients possibly running on multiuser
-machines (such as users of smbclient under Unix). Having said that,
-several developers are working hard on building it in to the next
-major version of Samba. If you can contribute, send a message to
-<htmlurl url="mailto:samba@samba.org" name="samba@samba.org"> !
-
-Seeing this message should not affect your ability to mount redirected
-disks and printers, which is really what all this is about.
-
-For many clients (including Windows for Workgroups and Lan Manager),
-setting the domain to STANDALONE at least gets rid of the message.
-
-<sect1>Printing doesn't work :-(<p> <label id="no_printing">
-Make sure that the specified print command for the service you are
-connecting to is correct and that it has a fully-qualified path (eg.,
-use "/usr/bin/lpr" rather than just "lpr").
-
-Make sure that the spool directory specified for the service is
-writable by the user connected to the service. In particular the user
-"nobody" often has problems with printing, even if it worked with an
-earlier version of Samba. Try creating another guest user other than
-"nobody".
-
-Make sure that the user specified in the service is permitted to use
-the printer.
-
-Check the debug log produced by smbd. Search for the printer name and
-see if the log turns up any clues. Note that error messages to do with
-a service ipc$ are meaningless - they relate to the way the client
-attempts to retrieve status information when using the LANMAN1
-protocol.
-
-If using WfWg then you need to set the default protocol to TCP/IP, not
-Netbeui. This is a WfWg bug.
-
-If using the Lanman1 protocol (the default) then try switching to
-coreplus. Also not that print status error messages don't mean
-printing won't work. The print status is received by a different
-mechanism.
-
-<sect1>My programs install on the server OK, but refuse to work properly<p><label id="programs_wont_run">
-There are numerous possible reasons for this, but one MAJOR
-possibility is that your software uses locking. Make sure you are
-using Samba 1.6.11 or later. It may also be possible to work around
-the problem by setting "locking=no" in the Samba configuration file
-for the service the software is installed on. This should be regarded
-as a strictly temporary solution.
-
-In earlier Samba versions there were some difficulties with the very
-latest Microsoft products, particularly Excel 5 and Word for Windows
-6. These should have all been solved. If not then please let Andrew
-Tridgell know via email at <htmlurl url="mailto:samba@samba.org" name="samba@samba.org">.
-
-<sect1>My "server string" doesn't seem to be recognised<p><label id="bad_server_string">
-OR My client reports the default setting, eg. "Samba 1.9.15p4", instead
-of what I have changed it to in the smb.conf file.
-
-You need to use the -C option in nmbd. The "server string" affects
-what smbd puts out and -C affects what nmbd puts out.
-
-Current versions of Samba (1.9.16 +) have combined these options into
-the "server string" field of smb.conf, -C for nmbd is now obsolete.
-
-<sect1>My client reports "This server is not configured to list shared resources" <p> <label id="cant_list_shares">
-Your guest account is probably invalid for some reason. Samba uses the
-guest account for browsing in smbd. Check that your guest account is
-valid.
-
-See also 'guest account' in smb.conf man page.
-
-<sect1>Log message "you appear to have a trapdoor uid system" <p><label id="trapdoor_uid">
-This can have several causes. It might be because you are using a uid
-or gid of 65535 or -1. This is a VERY bad idea, and is a big security
-hole. Check carefully in your /etc/passwd file and make sure that no
-user has uid 65535 or -1. Especially check the "nobody" user, as many
-broken systems are shipped with nobody setup with a uid of 65535.
-
-It might also mean that your OS has a trapdoor uid/gid system :-)
-
-This means that once a process changes effective uid from root to
-another user it can't go back to root. Unfortunately Samba relies on
-being able to change effective uid from root to non-root and back
-again to implement its security policy. If your OS has a trapdoor uid
-system this won't work, and several things in Samba may break. Less
-things will break if you use user or server level security instead of
-the default share level security, but you may still strike
-problems.
-
-The problems don't give rise to any security holes, so don't panic,
-but it does mean some of Samba's capabilities will be unavailable.
-In particular you will not be able to connect to the Samba server as
-two different uids at once. This may happen if you try to print as a
-"guest" while accessing a share as a normal user. It may also affect
-your ability to list the available shares as this is normally done as
-the guest user.
-
-Complain to your OS vendor and ask them to fix their system.
-
-Note: the reason why 65535 is a VERY bad choice of uid and gid is that
-it casts to -1 as a uid, and the setreuid() system call ignores (with
-no error) uid changes to -1. This means any daemon attempting to run
-as uid 65535 will actually run as root. This is not good!
-
-<sect>Common client questions<p> <label id="client_questions">
-
-<sect1>Are there any Macintosh clients for Samba?<p> <label id="mac_clients">
-Yes! Thursby now have a CIFS Client / Server called DAVE - see <url url="http://www.thursby.com/">.
-They test it against Windows 95, Windows NT and samba for compatibility issues.
-At the time of writing, DAVE was at version 1.0.1. The 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 update is available
-as a free download from the Thursby web site (the speed of finder copies has
-been greatly enhanced, and there are bug-fixes included).
-
-Alternatives - There are two free implementations of AppleTalk for
-several kinds of UNIX machnes, and several more commercial ones.
-These products allow you to run file services and print services
-natively to Macintosh users, with no additional support required on
-the Macintosh. The two free omplementations are Netatalk,
-<url url="http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/">, and CAP,
-<url url="http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/appletalk/atalk.html">. What Samba offers
-MS Windows users, these packages offer to Macs. For more info on
-these packages, Samba, and Linux (and other UNIX-based systems)
-see <url url="http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html">
-
-<sect1>"Session request failed (131,130)" error<p> <label id="sess_req_fail">
-The following answer is provided by John E. Miller:
-
-I'll assume that you're able to ping back and forth between the
-machines by IP address and name, and that you're using some security
-model where you're confident that you've got user IDs and passwords
-right. The logging options (-d3 or greater) can help a lot with that.
-DNS and WINS configuration can also impact connectivity as well.
-
-Now, on to 'scope id's. Somewhere in your Win95 TCP/IP network
-configuration (I'm too much of an NT bigot to know where it's located
-in the Win95 setup, but I'll have to learn someday since I teach for a
-Microsoft Solution Provider Authorized Tech Education Center - what an
-acronym...) [Note: It's under Control Panel | Network | TCP/IP | WINS
-Configuration] there's a little text entry field called something like
-'Scope ID'.
-
-This field essentially creates 'invisible' sub-workgroups on the same
-wire. Boxes can only see other boxes whose Scope IDs are set to the
-exact same value - it's sometimes used by OEMs to configure their
-boxes to browse only other boxes from the same vendor and, in most
-environments, this field should be left blank. If you, in fact, have
-something in this box that EXACT value (case-sensitive!) needs to be
-provided to smbclient and nmbd as the -i (lowercase) parameter. So, if
-your Scope ID is configured as the string 'SomeStr' in Win95 then
-you'd have to use smbclient -iSomeStr [otherparms] in connecting to
-it.
-
-<sect1>How do I synchronise my PC's clock with my Samba server? <p><label id="synchronise_clock">
-To syncronize your PC's clock with your Samba server:
-<itemize>
-<item> Copy timesync.pif to your windows directory
- <item> timesync.pif can be found at:
- <url
-url="http://samba.org/samba/binaries/miscellaneous/timesync.pif">
-<item> Add timesync.pif to your 'Start Up' group/folder
-<item> Open the properties dialog box for the program/icon
-<item> Make sure the 'Run Minimized' option is set in program 'Properties'
-<iteM> Change the command line section that reads [\\sambahost] to reflect the name of your server.
-<item> Close the properties dialog box by choosing 'OK'
-</itemize>
-Each time you start your computer (or login for Win95) your PC will
-synchronize its clock with your Samba server.
-
-Alternativley, if you clients support Domain Logons, you can setup Domain Logons with Samba
- - see: <url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/BROWSING.txt" name="BROWSING.txt"> *** for more information.
-<p>Then add
-<tscreen><verb>
-NET TIME \\%L /SET /YES
-</verb></tscreen>
-as one of the lines in the logon script.
-<sect1>Problems with WinDD, NTrigue, WinCenterPro etc<p>
-<label id="multiple_session_clients">
-
-All of the above programs are applications that sit on an NT box and
-allow multiple users to access the NT GUI applications from remote
-workstations (often over X).
-
-What has this got to do with Samba? The problem comes when these users
-use filemanager to mount shares from a Samba server. The most common
-symptom is that the first user to connect get correct file permissions
-and has a nice day, but subsequent connections get logged in as the
-same user as the first person to login. They find that they cannot
-access files in their own home directory, but that they can access
-files in the first users home directory (maybe not such a nice day
-after all?)
-
-Why does this happen? The above products all share a common heritage
-(and code base I believe). They all open just a single TCP based SMB
-connection to the Samba server, and requests from all users are piped
-over this connection. This is unfortunate, but not fatal.
-
-It means that if you run your Samba server in share level security
-(the default) then things will definately break as described
-above. The share level SMB security model has no provision for
-multiple user IDs on the one SMB connection. See <url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/security_level.txt" name="security_level.txt"> in
-the docs for more info on share/user/server level security.
-
-If you run in user or server level security then you have a chance,
-but only if you have a recent version of Samba (at least 1.9.15p6). In
-older versions bugs in Samba meant you still would have had problems.
-
-If you have a trapdoor uid system in your OS then it will never work
-properly. Samba needs to be able to switch uids on the connection and
-it can't if your OS has a trapdoor uid system. You'll know this
-because Samba will note it in your logs.
-
-Also note that you should not use the magic "homes" share name with
-products like these, as otherwise all users will end up with the same
-home directory. Use [\\server\username] instead.
-
-<sect1>Problem with printers under NT<p> <label id="nt_printers">
-This info from Stefan Hergeth
-hergeth@f7axp1.informatik.fh-muenchen.de may be useful:
-
- A network-printer (with ethernetcard) is connected to the NT-Clients
-via our UNIX-Fileserver (SAMBA-Server), like the configuration told by
- Matthew Harrell harrell@leech.nrl.navy.mil (see WinNT.txt)
-<enum>
-<item>If a user has choosen this printer as the default printer in his
- NT-Session and this printer is not connected to the network
- (e.g. switched off) than this user has a problem with the SAMBA-
- connection of his filesystems. It's very slow.
-
-<item>If the printer is connected to the network everything works fine.
-
-<item>When the smbd ist started with debug level 3, you can see that the
- NT spooling system try to connect to the printer many times. If the
- printer ist not connected to the network this request fails and the
- NT spooler is wasting a lot of time to connect to the printer service.
- This seems to be the reason for the slow network connection.
-
-<item>Maybe it's possible to change this behaviour by setting different
- printer properties in the Print-Manager-Menu of NT, but i didn't try it yet.
-</enum>
-
-<sect1>Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?<p><label id="dst_bugs">
-This is from Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com.
-
-Most likely it's a problem with your time zone settings.
-
-Internally, Samba maintains time in traditional Unix format,
-namely, the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Universal Time
-(or ``GMT''), not counting leap seconds.
-
-On the server side, Samba uses the Unix TZ variable to convert
-internal timestamps to and from local time. So on the server side, there are
-two things to get right.
-<enum>
-<item>The Unix system clock must have the correct Universal time.
- Use the shell command "sh -c 'TZ=UTC0 date'" to check this.
-
-<item>The TZ environment variable must be set on the server
- before Samba is invoked. The details of this depend on the
- server OS, but typically you must edit a file whose name is
- /etc/TIMEZONE or /etc/default/init, or run the command `zic -l'.
-
-<item>TZ must have the correct value.
-<enum>
- <item>If possible, use geographical time zone settings
- (e.g. TZ='America/Los_Angeles' or perhaps
- TZ=':US/Pacific'). These are supported by most
- popular Unix OSes, are easier to get right, and are
- more accurate for historical timestamps. If your
- operating system has out-of-date tables, you should be
- able to update them from the public domain time zone
- tables at <url url="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/">.
-
- <item>If your system does not support geographical timezone
- settings, you must use a Posix-style TZ strings, e.g.
- TZ='PST8PDT,M4.1.0/2,M10.5.0/2' for US Pacific time.
- Posix TZ strings can take the following form (with optional
- items in brackets):
-<verb>
- StdOffset[Dst[Offset],Date/Time,Date/Time]
-</verb>
- where:
-<itemize>
-<item> `Std' is the standard time designation (e.g. `PST').
-
-<item> `Offset' is the number of hours behind UTC (e.g. `8').
- Prepend a `-' if you are ahead of UTC, and
- append `:30' if you are at a half-hour offset.
- Omit all the remaining items if you do not use
- daylight-saving time.
-
-<item> `Dst' is the daylight-saving time designation
- (e.g. `PDT').
-
- The optional second `Offset' is the number of
- hours that daylight-saving time is behind UTC.
- The default is 1 hour ahead of standard time.
-
-<item> `Date/Time,Date/Time' specify when daylight-saving
- time starts and ends. The format for a date is
- `Mm.n.d', which specifies the dth day (0 is Sunday)
- of the nth week of the mth month, where week 5 means
- the last such day in the month. The format for a
- time is [h]h[:mm[:ss]], using a 24-hour clock.
-</itemize>
- Other Posix string formats are allowed but you don't want
- to know about them.
-</enum>
-</enum>
-On the client side, you must make sure that your client's clock and
-time zone is also set appropriately. [[I don't know how to do this.]]
-Samba traditionally has had many problems dealing with time zones, due
-to the bizarre ways that Microsoft network protocols handle time
-zones. A common symptom is for file timestamps to be off by an hour.
-To work around the problem, try disconnecting from your Samba server
-and then reconnecting to it; or upgrade your Samba server to
-1.9.16alpha10 or later.
-
-<sect1> How do I set the printer driver name correctly? <p><label id="printer_driver_name">
-Question:
- On NT, I opened "Printer Manager" and "Connect to Printer".
- Enter ["\\ptdi270\ps1"] in the box of printer. I got the
- following error message:
-<tscreen><verb>
- You do not have sufficient access to your machine
- to connect to the selected printer, since a driver
- needs to be installed locally.
-</verb></tscreen>
-Answer:
-
-In the more recent versions of Samba you can now set the "printer
-driver" in smb.conf. This tells the client what driver to use. For
-example:
-<tscreen><verb>
- printer driver = HP LaserJet 4L
-</verb></tscreen>
-with this, NT knows to use the right driver. You have to get this string
-exactly right.
-
-To find the exact string to use, you need to get to the dialog box in
-your client where you select which printer driver to install. The
-correct strings for all the different printers are shown in a listbox
-in that dialog box.
-
-You could also try setting the driver to NULL like this:
-<tscreen><verb>
- printer driver = NULL
-</verb></tscreen>
-this is effectively what older versions of Samba did, so if that
-worked for you then give it a go. If this does work then let us know via <htmlurl url="mailto:samba@samba.org" name="samba@samba.org">,
-and we'll make it the default. Currently the default is a 0 length
-string.
-
-<sect1>I've applied NT 4.0 SP3, and now I can't access Samba shares, Why?<p><label id="NT_SP3_FIX">
-As of SP3, Microsoft has decided that they will no longer default to
-passing clear text passwords over the network. To enable access to
-Samba shares from NT 4.0 SP3, you must do <bf>ONE</bf> of two things:
-<enum>
-<item> Set the Samba configuration option 'security = user' and implement all of the stuff detailed in <url url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/ENCRYPTION.txt" name="ENCRYPTION.txt">.
-<item> Follow Microsoft's directions for setting your NT box to allow plain text passwords. see <url url="http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q166/7/30.htm" name="Knowledge Base Article Q166730">
-</enum>
-
-<sect>Specific client application problems<p> <label id="client_problems">
-
-<sect1>MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\MSOFFICE\SETUP.INI'"<p> <label id="cant_change_properties">
-When installing MS Office on a Samba drive for which you have admin
-user permissions, ie. admin users = username, you will find the
-setup program unable to complete the installation.
-
-To get around this problem, do the installation without admin user
-permissions The problem is that MS Office Setup checks that a file is
-rdonly by trying to open it for writing.
-
-Admin users can always open a file for writing, as they run as root.
-You just have to install as a non-admin user and then use "chown -R"
-to fix the owner.
-
-<sect>Miscellaneous<p> <label id="miscellaneous">
-<sect1>Is Samba Year 2000 compliant?<p><label id="Year2000Compliant">
-The CIFS protocol that Samba implements
-negotiates times in various formats, all of which
-are able to cope with dates beyond 2000.
-
-</article>