From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 09:03:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38104106566C for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:03:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0734E8FC08 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:03:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id n4so955837wag.27 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:03:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=RFrNR2+MW/tkkFLy0d4/LGnH18zYUaEwFGFv2PpWMVA=; b=Dyd2qfNy1kAQTK72O98N6PvIaIkVbh/tW5qcJRrGtQjf0WqJCBxk4eBiQmqgwYP7V9 p7GYqFgsRPunULF2Hhn4SQ1lGK2UkqO6R1jpV5UyZapDq3IGlN+AMxwfhvLtoI65jynQ 24mpRYSwLJxV0UU8KVG6QogNaqTseFyx7js+k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=Qc9ZVHx6vnbYjwCxEeEyPMIWHV/QbLtTtKBGOJ/ZxHCtDKxfQ1Eoo7KwmI7MGxse5k yd9Vm4VLb6StRjPv8XmIwEqjUK2WhY7zmY609BXKiKQn/Z4nq2by0eOHBt43X/S15STE emRoN02cW7fURh7bZg0VAgLdF04o3hckrX+No= Received: by 10.115.33.1 with SMTP id l1mr5178079waj.115.1224493437370; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:03:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.120.9 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:03:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <991123400810200203t981a306l260152602c3648fc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:03:57 +0300 From: "Odhiambo Washington" To: "Valentin Bud" In-Reply-To: <139b44430810200133o1241cf4w997fddbc4dd7492d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48F8A258.2060407@esiee.fr> <20081017174145.L10784@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <1960fb140810170913s237f7295jd5e192f1745c9dcb@mail.gmail.com> <48FC3F66.9080507@esiee.fr> <139b44430810200133o1241cf4w997fddbc4dd7492d@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Frank Bonnet , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, charlie@cpsoftware.com Subject: Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:03:58 -0000 On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Valentin Bud wrote: > hello list, > a little story about samba and FreeBSD. > I had to make a file server for a company that uses a program for > accounting. that software works with lots of files to do the job. > > the software admin told me that the permissions should be very open on the > directories and files > so i made them 0777. the software worked like a charm for about 2 months but > after that > at some point the client couldn't access the files on the samba server. > The files were there with the correct permissions but the software refused > to access them with > an error that they don't exist. I've tried to debug samba but couldn't find > a clue, i have updated > FreeBSD because i thought that the problem is with seekdir because the > software was usign lot of files > and directories. That didn't solve the problem either. > I have searched the web for a guidance but couldn't find any. The > interesting part comes when > the company decided to change the OS to openSUSE. That did the trick. So > first > thing that comes in mind is that FreeBSD + samba + that accounting software > just don't work together. > I didn't had the chance to debug it as i should because they needed a fix > ASAP. > > I have always used FreeBSD for web/file/VoIP server and never had a problem. > I even have a FBSD > box that server as a file server and there are lots of files and 10 depth > directories and it works like a charm. > > I have no conclusions, is just a story of my own to help you make an > opinion. > Are you using the same samba config file from FreeBSD on OpenSUSE? Do you mind showing us that smb.conf -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post