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-<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 38. Samba and other CIFS clients</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SAMBA Project Documentation"><link rel="up" href="Appendixes.html" title="Part VI. Appendixes"><link rel="previous" href="Portability.html" title="Chapter 37. Portability"><link rel="next" href="speed.html" title="Chapter 39. Samba Performance Tuning"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 38. Samba and other CIFS clients</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Portability.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part VI. Appendixes</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="speed.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="Other-Clients"></a>Chapter 38. Samba and other CIFS clients</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Jim</span> <span class="surname">McDonough</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">IBM<br></span><div class="address"><p><tt class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:jmcd@us.ibm.com">jmcd@us.ibm.com</a>&gt;</tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Jelmer</span> <span class="othername">R.</span> <span class="surname">Vernooij</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">The Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><tt class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:jelmer@samba.org">jelmer@samba.org</a>&gt;</tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">5 Mar 2001</p></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3013323">Macintosh clients?</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3013394">OS2 Client</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3013401">How can I configure OS/2 Warp Connect or
- OS/2 Warp 4 as a client for Samba?</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3013017">How can I configure OS/2 Warp 3 (not Connect),
- OS/2 1.2, 1.3 or 2.x for Samba?</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3013077">How do I get printer driver download working
- for OS/2 clients?</a></dt></dl></dd><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3013174">Windows for Workgroups</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3012636">Use latest TCP/IP stack from Microsoft</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3012726">Delete .pwl files after password change</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3012756">Configure WfW password handling</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3012802">Case handling of passwords</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3012831">Use TCP/IP as default protocol</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3012849">Speed improvement</a></dt></dl></dd><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3012895">Windows '95/'98</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3013925">Speed improvement</a></dt></dl></dd><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3013949">Windows 2000 Service Pack 2</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3014059">Windows NT 3.1</a></dt></dl></div><p>This chapter contains client-specific information.</p><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3013323"></a>Macintosh clients?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
-Yes. <a href="http://www.thursby.com/" target="_top">Thursby</a> now have a CIFS Client / Server called <a href="http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html" target="_top">DAVE</a>
+<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 38. Samba and other CIFS clients</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SAMBA Project Documentation"><link rel="up" href="Appendixes.html" title="Part VI. Appendixes"><link rel="previous" href="Portability.html" title="Chapter 37. Portability"><link rel="next" href="speed.html" title="Chapter 39. Samba Performance Tuning"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 38. Samba and other CIFS clients</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Portability.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part VI. Appendixes</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="speed.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="Other-Clients"></a>Chapter 38. Samba and other CIFS clients</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Jim</span> <span class="surname">McDonough</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">IBM<br></span><div class="address"><p><tt class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:jmcd@us.ibm.com">jmcd@us.ibm.com</a>&gt;</tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Jelmer</span> <span class="othername">R.</span> <span class="surname">Vernooij</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">The Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><tt class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:jelmer@samba.org">jelmer@samba.org</a>&gt;</tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">5 Mar 2001</p></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3015663">Macintosh clients?</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3017016">OS2 Client</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3017023">How can I configure OS/2 Warp Connect or
+ OS/2 Warp 4 as a client for Samba?</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3017102">How can I configure OS/2 Warp 3 (not Connect),
+ OS/2 1.2, 1.3 or 2.x for Samba?</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3017164">How do I get printer driver download working
+ for OS/2 clients?</a></dt></dl></dd><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3017260">Windows for Workgroups</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3017268">Use latest TCP/IP stack from Microsoft</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3017357">Delete .pwl files after password change</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3017388">Configure WfW password handling</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3017433">Case handling of passwords</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3017464">Use TCP/IP as default protocol</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3017481">Speed improvement</a></dt></dl></dd><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3017528">Windows '95/'98</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3017601">Speed improvement</a></dt></dl></dd><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3017625">Windows 2000 Service Pack 2</a></dt><dt><a href="Other-Clients.html#id3017736">Windows NT 3.1</a></dt></dl></div><p>This chapter contains client-specific information.</p><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3015663"></a>Macintosh clients?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+Yes. <a href="http://www.thursby.com/" target="_top">Thursby</a> now has a CIFS Client / Server called <a href="http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html" target="_top">DAVE</a>
</p><p>
They test it against Windows 95, Windows NT and samba for
compatibility issues. At the time of writing, DAVE was at version
@@ -12,17 +11,17 @@ the Thursby web site (the speed of finder copies has been greatly
enhanced, and there are bug-fixes included).
</p><p>
Alternatives - There are two free implementations of AppleTalk for
-several kinds of UNIX machnes, and several more commercial ones.
+several kinds of UNIX machines, 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
+the Macintosh. The two free implementations are
<a href="http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/" target="_top">Netatalk</a>, and
<a href="http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/appletalk/atalk.html" target="_top">CAP</a>.
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
<a href="http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html" target="_top">http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html</a>
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3013394"></a>OS2 Client</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3013401"></a>How can I configure OS/2 Warp Connect or
+</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3017016"></a>OS2 Client</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3017023"></a>How can I configure OS/2 Warp Connect or
OS/2 Warp 4 as a client for Samba?</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>A more complete answer to this question can be
found on <a href="http://carol.wins.uva.nl/~leeuw/samba/warp.html" target="_top">
http://carol.wins.uva.nl/~leeuw/samba/warp.html</a>.</p><p>Basically, you need three components:</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>The File and Print Client ('IBM Peer')</td></tr><tr><td>TCP/IP ('Internet support') </td></tr><tr><td>The &quot;NetBIOS over TCP/IP&quot; driver ('TCPBEUI')</td></tr></table><p>Installing the first two together with the base operating
@@ -40,7 +39,7 @@ packages, Samba, and Linux (and other UNIX-based systems) see
to the &quot;Names List&quot;, or specify a WINS server ('NetBIOS
Nameserver' in IBM and RFC terminology). For Warp Connect you
may need to download an update for 'IBM Peer' to bring it on
- the same level as Warp 4. See the webpage mentioned above.</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3013017"></a>How can I configure OS/2 Warp 3 (not Connect),
+ the same level as Warp 4. See the webpage mentioned above.</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3017102"></a>How can I configure OS/2 Warp 3 (not Connect),
OS/2 1.2, 1.3 or 2.x for Samba?</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>You can use the free Microsoft LAN Manager 2.2c Client
for OS/2 from
<a href="ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/BusSys/Clients/LANMAN.OS2/" target="_top">
@@ -58,7 +57,7 @@ packages, Samba, and Linux (and other UNIX-based systems) see
or NS2000 driver from
<a href="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/network/ndis/" target="_top">
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/network/ndis/</a> instead.
- </p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3013077"></a>How do I get printer driver download working
+ </p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3017164"></a>How do I get printer driver download working
for OS/2 clients?</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>First, create a share called <i class="parameter"><tt>[PRINTDRV]</tt></i> that is
world-readable. Copy your OS/2 driver files there. Note
that the .EA_ files must still be separate, so you will need
@@ -75,8 +74,8 @@ packages, Samba, and Linux (and other UNIX-based systems) see
you the driver is not available. On the second attempt, it
will work. This is fixed simply by adding the device name
to the mapping, after which it will work on the first attempt.
- </p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3013174"></a>Windows for Workgroups</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3012636"></a>Use latest TCP/IP stack from Microsoft</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>Use the latest TCP/IP stack from microsoft if you use Windows
-for workgroups.
+ </p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3017260"></a>Windows for Workgroups</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3017268"></a>Use latest TCP/IP stack from Microsoft</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>Use the latest TCP/IP stack from Microsoft if you use Windows
+for Workgroups.
</p><p>The early TCP/IP stacks had lots of bugs.</p><p>
Microsoft has released an incremental upgrade to their TCP/IP 32-Bit
VxD drivers. The latest release can be found on their ftp site at
@@ -90,7 +89,7 @@ fixed. New files include <tt class="filename">WINSOCK.DLL</tt>,
<tt class="filename">TRACERT.EXE</tt>,
<tt class="filename">NETSTAT.EXE</tt>, and
<tt class="filename">NBTSTAT.EXE</tt>.
-</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3012726"></a>Delete .pwl files after password change</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3017357"></a>Delete .pwl files after password change</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
WfWg does a lousy job with passwords. I find that if I change my
password on either the unix box or the PC the safest thing to do is to
delete the .pwl files in the windows directory. The PC will complain about not finding the files, but will soon get over it, allowing you to enter the new password.
@@ -99,7 +98,7 @@ If you don't do this you may find that WfWg remembers and uses the old
password, even if you told it a new one.
</p><p>
Often WfWg will totally ignore a password you give it in a dialog box.
-</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3012756"></a>Configure WfW password handling</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3017388"></a>Configure WfW password handling</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
There is a program call admincfg.exe
on the last disk (disk 8) of the WFW 3.11 disk set. To install it
type <b class="userinput"><tt>EXPAND A:\ADMINCFG.EX_ C:\WINDOWS\ADMINCFG.EXE</tt></b>.
@@ -107,22 +106,22 @@ Then add an icon
for it via the <span class="application">Program Manager</span> <span class="guimenu">New</span> Menu.
This program allows you to control how WFW handles passwords. ie disable Password Caching etc
for use with <i class="parameter"><tt>security = user</tt></i>
-</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3012802"></a>Case handling of passwords</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>Windows for Workgroups uppercases the password before sending it to the server. Unix passwords can be case-sensitive though. Check the <a href="smb.conf.5.html" target="_top">smb.conf(5)</a> information on <i class="parameter"><tt>password level</tt></i> to specify what characters samba should try to uppercase when checking.</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3012831"></a>Use TCP/IP as default protocol</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>To support print queue reporting you may find
+</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3017433"></a>Case handling of passwords</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>Windows for Workgroups uppercases the password before sending it to the server. Unix passwords can be case-sensitive though. Check the <a href="smb.conf.5.html" target="_top">smb.conf(5)</a> information on <i class="parameter"><tt>password level</tt></i> to specify what characters samba should try to uppercase when checking.</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3017464"></a>Use TCP/IP as default protocol</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>To support print queue reporting you may find
that you have to use TCP/IP as the default protocol under
-WfWg. For some reason if you leave Netbeui as the default
+WfWg. For some reason if you leave NetBEUI as the default
it may break the print queue reporting on some systems.
-It is presumably a WfWg bug.</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3012849"></a>Speed improvement</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+It is presumably a WfWg bug.</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3017481"></a>Speed improvement</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
Note that some people have found that setting <i class="parameter"><tt>DefaultRcvWindow</tt></i> in
the <i class="parameter"><tt>[MSTCP]</tt></i> section of the
<tt class="filename">SYSTEM.INI</tt> file under WfWg to 3072 gives a
big improvement. I don't know why.
</p><p>
-My own experience wth DefaultRcvWindow is that I get much better
+My own experience with DefaultRcvWindow is that I get much better
performance with a large value (16384 or larger). Other people have
-reported that anything over 3072 slows things down enourmously. One
+reported that anything over 3072 slows things down enormously. One
person even reported a speed drop of a factor of 30 when he went from
3072 to 8192. I don't know why.
-</p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3012895"></a>Windows '95/'98</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+</p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3017528"></a>Windows '95/'98</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
When using Windows 95 OEM SR2 the following updates are recommended where Samba
is being used. Please NOTE that the above change will affect you once these
updates have been installed.
@@ -131,16 +130,16 @@ There are more updates than the ones mentioned here. You are referred to the
Microsoft Web site for all currently available updates to your specific version
of Windows 95.
</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>Kernel Update: KRNLUPD.EXE</td></tr><tr><td>Ping Fix: PINGUPD.EXE</td></tr><tr><td>RPC Update: RPCRTUPD.EXE</td></tr><tr><td>TCP/IP Update: VIPUPD.EXE</td></tr><tr><td>Redirector Update: VRDRUPD.EXE</td></tr></table><p>
-Also, if using <span class="application">MS OutLook</span> it is desirable to
+Also, if using <span class="application">MS Outlook</span> it is desirable to
install the <b class="command">OLEUPD.EXE</b> fix. This
fix may stop your machine from hanging for an extended period when exiting
-OutLook and you may also notice a significant speedup when accessing network
+Outlook and you may also notice a significant speedup when accessing network
neighborhood services.
-</p><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3013925"></a>Speed improvement</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+</p><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3017601"></a>Speed improvement</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
Configure the win95 TCPIP registry settings to give better
performance. I use a program called <b class="command">MTUSPEED.exe</b> which I got off the
net. There are various other utilities of this type freely available.
-</p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3013949"></a>Windows 2000 Service Pack 2</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+</p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3017625"></a>Windows 2000 Service Pack 2</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
There are several annoyances with Windows 2000 SP2. One of which
only appears when using a Samba server to host user profiles
to Windows 2000 SP2 clients in a Windows domain. This assumes
@@ -181,7 +180,7 @@ the Win2k client a response to the QuerySecurityDescriptor
trans2 call which causes the client to set a default ACL
for the profile. This default ACL includes
</p><p><span class="emphasis"><em>DOMAIN\user &quot;Full Control&quot;</em></span>&gt;</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>This bug does not occur when using winbind to
-create accounts on the Samba host for Domain users.</p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3014059"></a>Windows NT 3.1</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>If you have problems communicating across routers with Windows
+create accounts on the Samba host for Domain users.</p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3017736"></a>Windows NT 3.1</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>If you have problems communicating across routers with Windows
NT 3.1 workstations, read <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;Q103765" target="_top">this Microsoft Knowledge Base article</a>.
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