Chapter 38. Samba and other CIFS clients

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).

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 Netatalk, and CAP. 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 http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html -

OS2 Client

How can I configure OS/2 Warp Connect or +

OS2 Client

How can I configure OS/2 Warp Connect or OS/2 Warp 4 as a client for Samba?

A more complete answer to this question can be found on http://carol.wins.uva.nl/~leeuw/samba/warp.html.

Basically, you need three components:

The File and Print Client ('IBM Peer')

TCP/IP ('Internet support')

The "NetBIOS over TCP/IP" driver ('TCPBEUI')

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 "Names List", 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.

How can I configure OS/2 Warp 3 (not Connect), + the same level as Warp 4. See the webpage mentioned above.

How can I configure OS/2 Warp 3 (not Connect), OS/2 1.2, 1.3 or 2.x for Samba?

You can use the free Microsoft LAN Manager 2.2c Client for OS/2 from @@ -58,7 +57,7 @@ packages, Samba, and Linux (and other UNIX-based systems) see or NS2000 driver from ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/network/ndis/ instead. -

How do I get printer driver download working +

How do I get printer driver download working for OS/2 clients?

First, create a share called [PRINTDRV] 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. -

Windows for Workgroups

Use latest TCP/IP stack from Microsoft

Use the latest TCP/IP stack from microsoft if you use Windows -for workgroups. +

Windows for Workgroups

Use latest TCP/IP stack from Microsoft

Use the latest TCP/IP stack from Microsoft if you use Windows +for Workgroups.

The early TCP/IP stacks had lots of bugs.

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 WINSOCK.DLL, TRACERT.EXE, NETSTAT.EXE, and NBTSTAT.EXE. -

Delete .pwl files after password change

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.

Often WfWg will totally ignore a password you give it in a dialog box. -

Configure WfW password handling

There is a program call admincfg.exe on the last disk (disk 8) of the WFW 3.11 disk set. To install it type EXPAND A:\ADMINCFG.EX_ C:\WINDOWS\ADMINCFG.EXE. @@ -107,22 +106,22 @@ Then add an icon for it via the Program Manager New Menu. This program allows you to control how WFW handles passwords. ie disable Password Caching etc for use with security = user -

Case handling of passwords

Windows for Workgroups uppercases the password before sending it to the server. Unix passwords can be case-sensitive though. Check the smb.conf(5) information on password level to specify what characters samba should try to uppercase when checking.

Use TCP/IP as default protocol

To support print queue reporting you may find +

Case handling of passwords

Use TCP/IP as default protocol

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.

Speed improvement

+It is presumably a WfWg bug.

Speed improvement

Note that some people have found that setting DefaultRcvWindow in the [MSTCP] section of the SYSTEM.INI file under WfWg to 3072 gives a big improvement. I don't know why.

-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. -

Windows '95/'98

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.

Kernel Update: KRNLUPD.EXE

Ping Fix: PINGUPD.EXE

RPC Update: RPCRTUPD.EXE

TCP/IP Update: VIPUPD.EXE

Redirector Update: VRDRUPD.EXE

-Also, if using MS OutLook it is desirable to +Also, if using MS Outlook it is desirable to install the OLEUPD.EXE 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. -

Speed improvement

Configure the win95 TCPIP registry settings to give better performance. I use a program called MTUSPEED.exe which I got off the net. There are various other utilities of this type freely available. -

Windows 2000 Service Pack 2

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

DOMAIN\user "Full Control">

Note

This bug does not occur when using winbind to -create accounts on the Samba host for Domain users.

Windows NT 3.1

If you have problems communicating across routers with Windows +create accounts on the Samba host for Domain users.

Windows NT 3.1

If you have problems communicating across routers with Windows NT 3.1 workstations, read this Microsoft Knowledge Base article.

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