Topic: V5 Upgrade

[Peter]

Have been running V4.1.2 server with 10 assorted Win machines on a network (Win95, Win98, WinME) -  running perfectly for months. Yesterday upgraded - no problem with upgrade itself, but after that some Win machines unable to browse the server - strange variations - one machine asks for Password IPC$ mentioned, others work OK. One particular multiuser software, which had its databases on the linux box, just crashes now, while another (based on MSAccess) runs OK. Prior to e-smith we had Linux Redhat5.2 running OK but it also had the same problems which we eventually sorted, I think by altering ownership of files - trouble is can't remember what!..... What has changed between V4 and V5 to alter permissions??

[NickR]

I would hazard a guess that SAMBA isn't configured for encrypted passwords - whenever you see IPC$, it's always been the cause in my experience. Win95 sends passwords in plain-text (yuk!), so they should login OK anyway.

Take a look at /etc/smb.conf & make sure you have :
encrypt passwords = yes

With regard to your database problem, you may need to set :
strict locking = yes

smb.conf is also where you can change the default file creation attributes for each share.

I've also installed samba2.2.1a-4 on my server - it seems more stable under heavy loads.

HTH

[Peter]

Thanks Nick - I've played around some more - Changing (security = user) to (security = share) in the smb.conf templates seems to allow the old WIN95 computers to access the i-bay - I think because as long as access is given to 'everyone' to the i-bay then passwords aren't required. Reading the samba docs leads me to believe that there is some pretty heavy programming involved with the manipulation  of passwords between Win and linux via samba - more than I can deal with! Also our security needs  are not great - all we really want to do is to have a fast file server for our Win machines on a small network. Regards

[Charlie Brady]

NickR wrote:

> I would hazard a guess that SAMBA isn't configured for
> encrypted passwords

Not so, samba has been configured for encrypted passwords in every version we have ever shipped.

Regards

Charlie