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Chapter 29. Portability

Table of Contents
29.1. HPUX
29.2. SCO Unix
29.3. DNIX
29.4. RedHat Linux Rembrandt-II
29.5. AIX
29.6. Solaris

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.

29.1. HPUX

HP's implementation of supplementary groups is, er, non-standard (for -hysterical reasons). There are two group files, /etc/group and -/etc/logingroup; the system maps UIDs to numbers using the former, but -initgroups() reads the latter. Most system admins who know the ropes -symlink /etc/group to /etc/logingroup (hard link doesn't work for reasons -too stupid to go into here). initgroups() will complain if one of the -groups you're in in /etc/logingroup has what it considers to be an invalid -ID, which means outside the range [0..UID_MAX], where UID_MAX is (I think) -60000 currently on HP-UX. This precludes -2 and 65534, the usual 'nobody' -GIDs.

If you encounter this problem, make sure that the programs that are failing -to initgroups() be run as users not in any groups with GIDs outside the -allowed range.

This is documented in the HP manual pages under setgroups(2) and passwd(4).

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.

29.2. SCO Unix

-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.

The patch you need is UOD385 Connection Drivers SLS. It is available from -SCO (ftp.sco.com, directory SLS, files uod385a.Z and uod385a.ltr.Z).

29.3. DNIX

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.

For this reason Samba by default defines the macro NO_EID in the DNIX -section of includes.h. This works around the problem in a limited way, -but it is far from ideal, some things still won't work right.

-To fix the problem properly you need to assemble the following two -functions and then either add them to your C library or link them into -Samba.

-put this in the file setegid.s:

        .globl  _setegid
-_setegid:
-        moveq   #47,d0
-        movl    #100,a0
-        moveq   #1,d1
-        movl    4(sp),a1
-        trap    #9
-        bccs    1$
-        jmp     cerror
-1$:
-        clrl    d0
-        rts

put this in the file seteuid.s:

        .globl  _seteuid
-_seteuid:
-        moveq   #47,d0
-        movl    #100,a0
-        moveq   #0,d1
-        movl    4(sp),a1
-        trap    #9
-        bccs    1$
-        jmp     cerror
-1$:
-        clrl    d0
-        rts

after creating the above files you then assemble them using

as seteuid.s

as setegid.s

that should produce the files seteuid.o and -setegid.o

then you need to add these to the LIBSM line in the DNIX section of -the Samba Makefile. Your LIBSM line will then look something like this:

LIBSM = setegid.o seteuid.o -ln

-You should then remove the line:

#define NO_EID

from the DNIX section of includes.h

29.4. RedHat Linux Rembrandt-II

By default RedHat Rembrandt-II during installation adds an -entry to /etc/hosts as follows: -

	127.0.0.1 loopback "hostname"."domainname"

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 -is the master browse list holder and who is the master browser.

Corrective Action: Delete the entry after the word loopback - in the line starting 127.0.0.1

29.5. AIX

29.5.1. Sequential Read Ahead

Disabling Sequential Read Ahead using vmtune -r 0 improves -samba performance significally.

29.6. Solaris

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, -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 -be stuck if F_SETLKW64 loops.

Sun released patches for Solaris 2.6, 8, and 9. The patch for Solaris 7 -has not been released yet.

The patch revision for 2.6 is 105181-34 -for 8 is 108528-19 -and for 9 is 112233-04

After the install of these patches it is recommended to reconfigure -and rebuild samba.

Thanks to Joe Meslovich for reporting

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