1 | <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 44. Samba and Other CIFS Clients</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Official Samba 3.0.x HOWTO and Reference Guide"><link rel="up" href="Appendix.html" title="Part VI. Reference Section"><link rel="prev" href="Portability.html" title="Chapter 43. Portability"><link rel="next" href="speed.html" title="Chapter 45. 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 44. 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. Reference Section</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 44. Samba and Other CIFS Clients</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Jelmer</span> <span class="othername">R.</span> <span class="orgname">The Samba Team</span> <span class="surname">Vernooij</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">The Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:jelmer@samba.org">jelmer@samba.org</a>></code></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">John</span> <span class="othername">H.</span> <span class="orgname">Samba Team</span> <span class="surname">Terpstra</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:jht@samba.org">jht@samba.org</a>></code></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Dan</span> <span class="orgname">Samba Team</span> <span class="surname">Shearer</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:dan@samba.org">dan@samba.org</a>></code></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Jim</span> <span class="orgname">IBM</span> <span class="surname">McDonough</span></h3><span class="contrib">OS/2</span> <div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">IBM<br></span><div class="address"><p><code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:jmcd@us.ibm.com">jmcd@us.ibm.com</a>></code></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">5 Mar 2001</p></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2689667">Macintosh Clients</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2689751">OS2 Client</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2689756">Configuring OS/2 Warp Connect or OS/2 Warp 4</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2689876">Configuring Other Versions of OS/2</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2689933">Printer Driver Download for OS/2 Clients</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2690026">Windows for Workgroups</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2690032">Latest TCP/IP Stack from Microsoft</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2690115">Delete .pwl Files After Password Change</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2690141">Configuring Windows for Workgroups Password Handling</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2690199">Password Case Sensitivity</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2690230">Use TCP/IP as Default Protocol</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#speedimpr">Speed Improvement</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2690288">Windows 95/98</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2690357">Speed Improvement</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2690378">Windows 2000 Service Pack 2</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2690574">Windows NT 3.1</a></span></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="id2689667"></a>Macintosh Clients</h2></div></div></div><p>
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2 | <a class="indexterm" name="id2689675"></a>
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3 | Yes. <a class="ulink" href="http://www.thursby.com/" target="_top">Thursby</a> has a CIFS client/server called <a class="ulink" href="http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html" target="_top">DAVE</a>. They test it against Windows 95, Windows
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4 | NT/200x/XP, and Samba for compatibility issues. At the time of this writing, DAVE was at version 5.1. Please
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5 | refer to Thursby's Web site for more information regarding this product.
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6 | </p><p>
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7 | <a class="indexterm" name="id2689702"></a>
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8 | <a class="indexterm" name="id2689708"></a>
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9 | Alternatives include two free implementations of AppleTalk for several kinds of UNIX machines and several more
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10 | commercial ones. These products allow you to run file services and print services natively to Macintosh
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11 | users, with no additional support required on the Macintosh. The two free implementations are <a class="ulink" href="http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/" target="_top">Netatalk</a> and <a class="ulink" href="http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/appletalk/atalk.html" target="_top">CAP</a>. What Samba offers MS Windows users, these
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12 | packages offer to Macs. For more info on these packages, Samba, and Linux (and other UNIX-based systems), see
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13 | <a class="ulink" href="http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html" target="_top">http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html.</a>
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14 | </p><p>Newer versions of the Macintosh (Mac OS X) include Samba.</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2689751"></a>OS2 Client</h2></div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2689756"></a>Configuring OS/2 Warp Connect or OS/2 Warp 4</h3></div></div></div><p>Basically, you need three components:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>The File and Print Client (IBM peer)</p></li><li><p>TCP/IP (Internet support) </p></li><li><p>The “<span class="quote">NetBIOS over TCP/IP</span>” driver (TCPBEUI)</p></li></ul></div><p>Installing the first two together with the base operating
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15 | system on a blank system is explained in the Warp manual. If Warp
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16 | has already been installed, but you now want to install the
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17 | networking support, use the “<span class="quote">Selective Install for Networking</span>”
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18 | object in the “<span class="quote">System Setup</span>” folder.</p><p>Adding the “<span class="quote">NetBIOS over TCP/IP</span>” driver is not described
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19 | in the manual and just barely in the online documentation. Start
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20 | <code class="literal">MPTS.EXE</code>, click on <span class="guiicon">OK</span>, click on <span class="guimenu">Configure LAPS</span>, and click
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21 | on <span class="guimenu">IBM OS/2 NETBIOS OVER TCP/IP</span> in <span class="guilabel">Protocols</span>. This line
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22 | is then moved to <span class="guilabel">Current Configuration</span>. Select that line,
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23 | click on <span class="guimenuitem">Change number</span>, and increase it from 0 to 1. Save this
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24 | configuration.</p><p>If the Samba server is not on your local subnet, you
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25 | can optionally add IP names and addresses of these servers
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26 | to the <span class="guimenu">Names List</span> or specify a WINS server (NetBIOS
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27 | Nameserver in IBM and RFC terminology). For Warp Connect, you
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28 | may need to download an update for <code class="constant">IBM Peer</code> to bring it on
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29 | the same level as Warp 4. See the IBM OS/2 Warp Web page</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2689876"></a>Configuring Other Versions of OS/2</h3></div></div></div><p>This sections deals with configuring OS/2 Warp 3 (not Connect), OS/2 1.2, 1.3 or 2.x.</p><p>You can use the free Microsoft LAN Manager 2.2c Client for OS/2 that is
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30 | available from
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31 | <a class="ulink" href="ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/BusSys/Clients/LANMAN.OS2/" target="_top">
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32 | ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/BusSys/Clients/LANMAN.OS2/</a>. In a nutshell, edit
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33 | the file <code class="filename">\OS2VER</code> in the root directory of the OS/2 boot partition and add the lines:</p><pre class="programlisting">
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34 | 20=setup.exe
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35 | 20=netwksta.sys
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36 | 20=netvdd.sys
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37 | </pre><p>before you install the client. Also, do not use the included NE2000 driver because it is buggy.
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38 | Try the NE2000 or NS2000 driver from <a class="ulink" href="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/network/ndis/" target="_top">
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39 | ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/network/ndis/</a> instead.
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40 | </p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2689933"></a>Printer Driver Download for OS/2 Clients</h3></div></div></div><p>Create a share called <em class="parameter"><code>[PRINTDRV]</code></em> that is
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41 | world-readable. Copy your OS/2 driver files there. The <code class="filename">.EA_</code>
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42 | files must still be separate, so you will need to use the original install files
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43 | and not copy an installed driver from an OS/2 system.</p><p>Install the NT driver first for that printer. Then, add to your <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> a parameter,
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44 | <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#OS2DRIVERMAP" target="_top">os2 driver map</a>.
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45 | Next, in the file specified by <em class="replaceable"><code>filename</code></em>, map the
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46 | name of the NT driver name to the OS/2 driver name as follows:</p><p><em class="parameter"><code><em class="replaceable"><code>nt driver name</code></em> = <em class="replaceable"><code>os2 driver name</code></em>.<em class="replaceable"><code>device name</code></em></code></em>, e.g.,</p><p><em class="parameter"><code>
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47 | HP LaserJet 5L = LASERJET.HP LaserJet 5L</code></em></p><p>You can have multiple drivers mapped in this file.</p><p>If you only specify the OS/2 driver name, and not the
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48 | device name, the first attempt to download the driver will
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49 | actually download the files, but the OS/2 client will tell
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50 | you the driver is not available. On the second attempt, it
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51 | will work. This is fixed simply by adding the device name
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52 | to the mapping, after which it will work on the first attempt.
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53 | </p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2690026"></a>Windows for Workgroups</h2></div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2690032"></a>Latest TCP/IP Stack from Microsoft</h3></div></div></div><p>Use the latest TCP/IP stack from Microsoft if you use Windows
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54 | for Workgroups. The early TCP/IP stacks had lots of bugs.</p><p>
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55 | Microsoft has released an incremental upgrade to its TCP/IP 32-bit VxD drivers. The latest release can be
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56 | found at ftp.microsoft.com, located in <code class="filename">/Softlib/MSLFILES/TCP32B.EXE</code>. There is an
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57 | update.txt file there that describes the problems that were fixed. New files include
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58 | <code class="filename">WINSOCK.DLL</code>, <code class="filename">TELNET.EXE</code>, <code class="filename">WSOCK.386</code>,
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59 | <code class="filename">VNBT.386</code>, <code class="filename">WSTCP.386</code>, <code class="filename">TRACERT.EXE</code>,
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60 | <code class="filename">NETSTAT.EXE</code>, and <code class="filename">NBTSTAT.EXE</code>.
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61 | </p><p>
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62 | More information about this patch is available in <a class="ulink" href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q99891/" target="_top">Knowledge Base article 99891</a>.
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63 | </p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2690115"></a>Delete .pwl Files After Password Change</h3></div></div></div><p>
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64 | Windows for Workgroups does a lousy job with passwords. When you change passwords on either
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65 | the UNIX box or the PC, the safest thing to do is delete the .pwl files in the Windows
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66 | directory. The PC will complain about not finding the files, but will soon get over it,
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67 | allowing you to enter the new password.
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68 | </p><p>
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69 | If you do not do this, you may find that Windows for Workgroups remembers and uses the old
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70 | password, even if you told it a new one.
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71 | </p><p>
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72 | Often Windows for Workgroups will totally ignore a password you give it in a dialog box.
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73 | </p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2690141"></a>Configuring Windows for Workgroups Password Handling</h3></div></div></div><p>
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74 | <a class="indexterm" name="id2690149"></a>
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75 | There is a program call <code class="filename">admincfg.exe</code> on the last disk (disk 8) of the WFW 3.11 disk set.
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76 | To install it, type <strong class="userinput"><code>EXPAND A:\ADMINCFG.EX_ C:\WINDOWS\ADMINCFG.EXE</code></strong>. Then add an icon
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77 | for it via the <span class="application">Program Manager</span> <span class="guimenu">New</span> menu. This program allows
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78 | you to control how WFW handles passwords, Disable Password Caching and so on, for use with <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#SECURITY" target="_top">security = user</a>.
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79 | </p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2690199"></a>Password Case Sensitivity</h3></div></div></div><p>Windows for Workgroups uppercases the password before sending it to the server.
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80 | UNIX passwords can be case-sensitive though. Check the <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> information on
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81 | <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#PASSWORDLEVEL" target="_top">password level</a> to specify what characters
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82 | Samba should try to uppercase when checking.</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2690230"></a>Use TCP/IP as Default Protocol</h3></div></div></div><p>To support print queue reporting, you may find
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83 | that you have to use TCP/IP as the default protocol under
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84 | Windows for Workgroups. For some reason, if you leave NetBEUI as the default,
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85 | it may break the print queue reporting on some systems.
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86 | It is presumably a Windows for Workgroups bug.</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="speedimpr"></a>Speed Improvement</h3></div></div></div><p>
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87 | Note that some people have found that setting <em class="parameter"><code>DefaultRcvWindow</code></em> in
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88 | the <em class="parameter"><code>[MSTCP]</code></em> section of the
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89 | <code class="filename">SYSTEM.INI</code> file under Windows for Workgroups to 3072 gives a
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90 | big improvement.
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91 | </p><p>
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92 | My own experience with DefaultRcvWindow is that I get a much better
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93 | performance with a large value (16384 or larger). Other people have
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94 | reported that anything over 3072 slows things down enormously. One
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95 | person even reported a speed drop of a factor of 30 when he went from
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96 | 3072 to 8192.
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97 | </p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2690288"></a>Windows 95/98</h2></div></div></div><p>
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98 | When using Windows 95 OEM SR2, the following updates are recommended where Samba
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99 | is being used. Please note that the changes documented in
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100 | <a class="link" href="Other-Clients.html#speedimpr" title="Speed Improvement">Speed Improvement</a> will affect you once these
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101 | updates have been installed.
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102 | </p><p>
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103 | There are more updates than the ones mentioned here. Refer to the
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104 | Microsoft Web site for all currently available updates to your specific version
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105 | of Windows 95.
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106 | </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>
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107 | Also, if using <span class="application">MS Outlook,</span> it is desirable to
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108 | install the <code class="literal">OLEUPD.EXE</code> fix. This
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109 | fix may stop your machine from hanging for an extended period when exiting
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110 | Outlook, and you may notice a significant speedup when accessing network
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111 | neighborhood services.
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112 | </p><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2690357"></a>Speed Improvement</h3></div></div></div><p>
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113 | Configure the Windows 95 TCP/IP registry settings to give better
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114 | performance. I use a program called <code class="literal">MTUSPEED.exe</code> that I got off the
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115 | Internet. There are various other utilities of this type freely available.
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116 | </p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2690378"></a>Windows 2000 Service Pack 2</h2></div></div></div><p>
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117 | There are several annoyances with Windows 2000 SP2, one of which
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118 | only appears when using a Samba server to host user profiles
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119 | to Windows 2000 SP2 clients in a Windows domain. This assumes
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120 | that Samba is a member of the domain, but the problem will
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121 | most likely occur if it is not.
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122 | </p><p>
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123 | In order to serve profiles successfully to Windows 2000 SP2
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124 | clients (when not operating as a PDC), Samba must have
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125 | <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#NTACLSUPPORT" target="_top">nt acl support = no</a>
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126 | added to the file share that houses the roaming profiles.
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127 | If this is not done, then the Windows 2000 SP2 client will
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128 | complain about not being able to access the profile (Access
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129 | Denied) and create multiple copies of it on disk (DOMAIN.user.001,
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130 | DOMAIN.user.002, and so on). See the <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> man page
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131 | for more details on this option. Also note that the
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132 | <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#NTACLSUPPORT" target="_top">nt acl support</a> parameter was formally a global parameter in
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133 | releases prior to Samba 2.2.2.
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134 | </p><p>
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135 | <a class="link" href="Other-Clients.html#minimalprofile" title="Example 44.1. Minimal Profile Share">Following example</a> provides a minimal profile share.
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136 | </p><div class="example"><a name="minimalprofile"></a><p class="title"><b>Example 44.1. Minimal Profile Share</b></p><div class="example-contents"><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td><em class="parameter"><code>[profile]</code></em></td></tr><tr><td><a class="indexterm" name="id2690469"></a><em class="parameter"><code>path = /export/profile</code></em></td></tr><tr><td><a class="indexterm" name="id2690481"></a><em class="parameter"><code>create mask = 0600</code></em></td></tr><tr><td><a class="indexterm" name="id2690492"></a><em class="parameter"><code>directory mask = 0700</code></em></td></tr><tr><td><a class="indexterm" name="id2690504"></a><em class="parameter"><code>nt acl support = no</code></em></td></tr><tr><td><a class="indexterm" name="id2690515"></a><em class="parameter"><code>read only = no</code></em></td></tr></table></div></div><br class="example-break"><p>
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137 | The reason for this bug is that the Windows 200x SP2 client copies
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138 | the security descriptor for the profile that contains
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139 | the Samba server's SID, and not the domain SID. The client
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140 | compares the SID for SAMBA\user and realizes it is
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141 | different from the one assigned to DOMAIN\user; hence,
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142 | <span class="errorname">access denied</span> message.
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143 | </p><p>
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144 | When the <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#NTACLSUPPORT" target="_top">nt acl support</a> parameter is disabled, Samba will send
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145 | the Windows 200x client a response to the QuerySecurityDescriptor trans2 call, which causes the client
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146 | to set a default ACL for the profile. This default ACL includes:
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147 | </p><p><span class="emphasis"><em>DOMAIN\user “<span class="quote">Full Control</span>”</em></span>></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
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148 | 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="id2690574"></a>Windows NT 3.1</h2></div></div></div><p>If you have problems communicating across routers with Windows
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149 | NT 3.1 workstations, read <a class="ulink" href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;Q103765" target="_top">this Microsoft Knowledge Base article:</a>.
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