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Samba and other CIFS clients"></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 37. Portability</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="compiling.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part VI. Appendixes</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Other-Clients.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="Portability"></a>Chapter 37. Portability</h2></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"><<a href="mailto:jelmer@samba.org">jelmer@samba.org</a>></tt></p></div></div></div></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="Portability.html#id3012180">HPUX</a></dt><dt><a href="Portability.html#id3012265">SCO Unix</a></dt><dt><a href="Portability.html#id3012293">DNIX</a></dt><dt><a href="Portability.html#id3012463">RedHat Linux Rembrandt-II</a></dt><dt><a href="Portability.html#id3012506">AIX</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="Portability.html#id3012513">Sequential Read Ahead</a></dt></dl></dd><dt><a href="Portability.html#id3012539">Solaris</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="Portability.html#id3012546">Locking improvements</a></dt><dt><a href="Portability.html#winbind-solaris9">Winbind on Solaris 9</a></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><p>Samba works on a wide range of platforms but the interface all the +<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 37. Portability</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="compiling.html" title="Chapter 36. How to compile SAMBA"><link rel="next" href="Other-Clients.html" title="Chapter 38. Samba and other CIFS clients"></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 37. Portability</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="compiling.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part VI. Appendixes</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Other-Clients.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="Portability"></a>Chapter 37. Portability</h2></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"><<a href="mailto:jelmer@samba.org">jelmer@samba.org</a>></tt></p></div></div></div></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="Portability.html#id3013478">HPUX</a></dt><dt><a href="Portability.html#id3016009">SCO Unix</a></dt><dt><a href="Portability.html#id3016039">DNIX</a></dt><dt><a href="Portability.html#id3016210">RedHat Linux Rembrandt-II</a></dt><dt><a href="Portability.html#id3016254">AIX</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="Portability.html#id3016261">Sequential Read Ahead</a></dt></dl></dd><dt><a href="Portability.html#id3016287">Solaris</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="Portability.html#id3016294">Locking improvements</a></dt><dt><a href="Portability.html#winbind-solaris9">Winbind on Solaris 9</a></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><p>Samba works on a wide range of platforms but the interface all the platforms provide is not always compatible. This chapter contains -platform-specific information about compiling and using samba.</p><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3012180"></a>HPUX</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +platform-specific information about compiling and using samba.</p><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3013478"></a>HPUX</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> HP's implementation of supplementary groups is, er, non-standard (for hysterical reasons). There are two group files, <tt class="filename">/etc/group</tt> and <tt class="filename">/etc/logingroup</tt>; the system maps UIDs to numbers using the former, but @@ -18,10 +17,10 @@ to initgroups() be run as users not in any groups with GIDs outside the allowed range. </p><p>This is documented in the HP manual pages under setgroups(2) and passwd(4). </p><p> -On HPUX you must use gcc or the HP Ansi compiler. The free compiler -that comes with HP-UX is not Ansi compliant and cannot compile +On HPUX you must use gcc or the HP ANSI compiler. The free compiler +that comes with HP-UX is not ANSI compliant and cannot compile Samba. -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3012265"></a>SCO Unix</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3016009"></a>SCO Unix</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> If you run an old version of SCO Unix then you may need to get important TCP/IP patches for Samba to work correctly. Without the patch, you may encounter corrupt data transfers using samba. @@ -29,7 +28,7 @@ encounter corrupt data transfers using samba. The patch you need is UOD385 Connection Drivers SLS. It is available from SCO (<a href="ftp://ftp.sco.com/" target="_top">ftp.sco.com</a>, directory SLS, files uod385a.Z and uod385a.ltr.Z). -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3012293"></a>DNIX</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3016039"></a>DNIX</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> DNIX has a problem with seteuid() and setegid(). These routines are needed for Samba to work correctly, but they were left out of the DNIX C library for some reason. @@ -88,13 +87,13 @@ LIBSM = setegid.o seteuid.o -ln You should then remove the line: </p><pre class="programlisting"> #define NO_EID -</pre><p>from the DNIX section of <tt class="filename">includes.h</tt></p></div><div xmlns:ns101="" class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3012463"></a>RedHat Linux Rembrandt-II</h2></div></div><div></div></div><ns101:p> +</pre><p>from the DNIX section of <tt class="filename">includes.h</tt></p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3016210"></a>RedHat Linux Rembrandt-II</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> By default RedHat Rembrandt-II during installation adds an entry to <tt class="filename">/etc/hosts</tt> as follows: -</ns101:p><pre class="programlisting"> +</p><pre class="programlisting"> 127.0.0.1 loopback "hostname"."domainname" -</pre><ns101:p> -</ns101:p><p> +</pre><p> +</p><p> This causes Samba to loop back onto the loopback interface. The result is that Samba fails to communicate correctly with the world and therefor may fail to correctly negotiate who @@ -102,13 +101,13 @@ is the master browse list holder and who is the master browser. </p><p> Corrective Action: Delete the entry after the word loopback in the line starting 127.0.0.1 -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3012506"></a>AIX</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3012513"></a>Sequential Read Ahead</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3016254"></a>AIX</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3016261"></a>Sequential Read Ahead</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> Disabling Sequential Read Ahead using <b class="userinput"><tt>vmtune -r 0</tt></b> improves -samba performance significally. -</p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3012539"></a>Solaris</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3012546"></a>Locking improvements</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>Some people have been experiencing problems with F_SETLKW64/fcntl -when running samba on solaris. The built in file locking mechanism was +Samba performance significantly. +</p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3016287"></a>Solaris</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3016294"></a>Locking improvements</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>Some people have been experiencing problems with F_SETLKW64/fcntl +when running Samba on Solaris. The built in file locking mechanism was not scalable. Performance would degrade to the point where processes would -get into loops of trying to lock a file. It woul try a lock, then fail, +get into loops of trying to lock a file. It would try a lock, then fail, then try again. The lock attempt was failing before the grant was occurring. So the visible manifestation of this would be a handful of processes stealing all of the CPU, and when they were trussed they would |