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-<H2><A NAME="s2">2. How do I get the CIFS, SMB and NetBIOS protocols?</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="ServerProtocols"></A>
-</P>
-<P>See the
-<A HREF="Samba-meta-FAQ.html#CifsSmb">meta FAQ on CIFS and SMB</A> if you don't have any idea what these protocols are.</P>
-<P>CIFS and SMB are implemented by the main Samba fileserving daemon, smbd.
-<F>.....</F></P>
-<P>nmbd speaks a limited amount of CIFS (...) but is mostly concerned with
-NetBIOS. NetBIOS is <F>....</F></P>
-<P>RFC1001, RFC1002 <F>...</F></P>
-<P>So, provided you have got Samba correctly installed and running you have
-all three of these protocols. Some operating systems already come with
-stacks for all or some of these, such as SCO Unix, OS/2 and <F>...</F> In this
-case you must <F>...</F></P>
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.1">2.1 What server operating systems are supported?</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="PortInfo"></A>
-</P>
-<P>At the last count, Samba runs on about 40 operating systems! This
-section looks at general questions about running Samba on the different
-platforms. Issues specific to particular operating systems are dealt
-with in elsewhere in this document.</P>
-<P>Many of the ports have been done by people outside the Samba team keen
-to get the advantages of Samba. The Samba team is currently trying to
-bring as many of these ports as possible into the main source tree and
-integrate the documentation. Samba is an integration tool, and so it has
-been made as easy as possible to port. The platforms most widely used
-and thus best tested are Linux and SunOS.</P>
-<P>This migration has not been completed yet. This means that some
-documentation is on web sites <F>...</F></P>
-<P>There are two main families of Samba ports, Unix and other. The Unix
-ports cover anything that remotely resembles Unix and includes some
-extremely old products as well as best-sellers, tiny PCs to massive
-multiprocessor machines supporting hundreds of thousands of users. Samba
-has been run on more than 30 Unix and Unix-like operating systems.</P>
-
-<H3>Running Samba on a Unix or Unix-like system</H3>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="OnUnix"></A>
-</P>
-<P>
-<A HREF="../UNIX-SMB.txt">../UNIX-SMB.txt</A> describes some of the issues that confront a
-SMB implementation on unix, and how Samba copes with them. They may help
-people who are looking at unix<->PC interoperability.</P>
-<P>There is great variation between Unix implementations, especially those
-not adhering to the Common Unix Specification agreed to in 1996. Things
-that can be quite tricky are <F>.....</F></P>
-<P>There are also some considerable advantages conferred on Samba running
-under Unix compared to, say, Windows NT or LAN Server. Unix has <F>...</F></P>
-<P>At time of writing, the Makefile claimed support for:
-<UL>
-<LI> A/UX 3.0</LI>
-<LI> AIX</LI>
-<LI> Altos Series 386/1000</LI>
-<LI> Amiga</LI>
-<LI> Apollo Domain/OS sr10.3</LI>
-<LI> BSDI </LI>
-<LI> B.O.S. (Bull Operating System)</LI>
-<LI> Cray, Unicos 8.0</LI>
-<LI> Convex</LI>
-<LI> DGUX. </LI>
-<LI> DNIX.</LI>
-<LI> FreeBSD</LI>
-<LI> HP-UX</LI>
-<LI> Intergraph. </LI>
-<LI> Linux with/without shadow passwords and quota</LI>
-<LI> LYNX 2.3.0</LI>
-<LI> MachTen (a unix like system for Macintoshes)</LI>
-<LI> Motorola 88xxx/9xx range of machines</LI>
-<LI> NetBSD</LI>
-<LI> NEXTSTEP Release 2.X, 3.0 and greater (including OPENSTEP for Mach).</LI>
-<LI> OS/2 using EMX 0.9b</LI>
-<LI> OSF1</LI>
-<LI> QNX 4.22</LI>
-<LI> RiscIX. </LI>
-<LI> RISCOs 5.0B</LI>
-<LI> SEQUENT. </LI>
-<LI> SCO (including: 3.2v2, European dist., OpenServer 5)</LI>
-<LI> SGI.</LI>
-<LI> SMP_DC.OSx v1.1-94c079 on Pyramid S series</LI>
-<LI> SONY NEWS, NEWS-OS (4.2.x and 6.1.x)</LI>
-<LI> SUNOS 4</LI>
-<LI> SUNOS 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 (Solaris 2.2, 2.3, and '2.4 and later')</LI>
-<LI> Sunsoft ISC SVR3V4</LI>
-<LI> SVR4</LI>
-<LI> System V with some berkely extensions (Motorola 88k R32V3.2).</LI>
-<LI> ULTRIX.</LI>
-<LI> UNIXWARE</LI>
-<LI> UXP/DS</LI>
-</UL>
-</P>
-
-
-<H3>Running Samba on systems unlike Unix</H3>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="OnUnlikeUnix"></A>
-</P>
-<P>More recently Samba has been ported to a number of operating systems
-which can provide a BSD Unix-like implementation of TCP/IP sockets.
-These include OS/2, Netware, VMS, StratOS, Amiga and MVS. BeOS,
-Windows NT and several others are being worked on but not yet available
-for use.</P>
-<P>Home pages for these ports are:</P>
-<P><F>... </F></P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.2">2.2 Exporting server resources with Samba</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="Exporting"></A>
-</P>
-<P>Files, printers, CD ROMs and other local devices. Network devices,
-including networked filesystems and remote printer queues. Other devices
-such as <F>....</F></P>
-<P>1.4) Configuring SHARES
-1.4.1) Homes service
-1.4.2) Public services
-1.4.3) Application serving
-1.4.4) Team sharing a Samba resource</P>
-<P>1.5) Printer configuration
-1.5.1) Berkeley LPR/LPD systems
-1.5.2) ATT SysV lp systems
-1.5.3) Using a private printcap file
-1.5.4) Use of the smbprint utility
-1.5.5) Printing from Windows to Unix
-1.5.6) Printing from Unix to Windows</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.3">2.3 Name Resolution and Browsing</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="NameBrowsing"></A>
-</P>
-<P>See also
-<A HREF="../BROWSING.txt">../BROWSING.txt</A></P>
-<P>1.6) Name resolution issues
-1.6.1) LMHOSTS file and when to use it
-1.6.2) configuring WINS (support, server, proxy)
-1.6.3) configuring DNS proxy</P>
-<P>1.7) Problem Diagnosis
-1.8) What NOT to do!!!!</P>
-<P>3.2) Browse list managment
-3.3) Name resolution mangement</P>
-
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.4">2.4 Handling SMB Encryption</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="SMBEncryptionSteps"></A>
-</P>
-<P>SMB encryption is ...</P>
-<P>...in
-<A HREF="../ENCRYPTION.txt">../ENCRYPTION.txt</A> there is...</P>
-<P>Samba compiled with libdes - enabling encrypted passwords</P>
-
-
-<H3>Laws in different countries affecting Samba</H3>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="CryptoLaws"></A>
-</P>
-
-<H3>Relationship between encryption and Domain Authentication</H3>
-
-
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.5">2.5 Files and record locking</A> 3.1.1) Old DOS clients 3.1.2) Opportunistic locking and the consequences 3.1.3) Files caching under Windows for Workgroups, Win95 and NT Some of the foregoing links into Client-FAQ</H2>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.6">2.6 Managing Samba Log files</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="LogFiles"></A>
-</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.7">2.7 I can't see the Samba server in any browse lists!</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="no_browse"></A>
-
-See
-<A HREF="ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/BROWSING.txt">BROWSING.txt</A>
-for more information on browsing. Browsing.txt can also be found
-in the docs directory of the Samba source.</P>
-<P>If your GUI client does not permit you to select non-browsable
-servers, you may need to do so on the command line. For example, under
-Lan Manager you might connect to the above service as disk drive M:
-thusly:
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
- net use M: \\mary\fred
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-
-The details of how to do this and the specific syntax varies from
-client to client - check your client's documentation.</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.8">2.8 Some files that I KNOW are on the server doesn't show up when I view the files from my client! </A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="missing_files"></A>
-
-See the next question.</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.9">2.9 Some files on the server show up with really wierd filenames when I view the files from my client! </A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="strange_filenames"></A>
-
-If you check what files are not showing up, you will note that they
-are files which contain upper case letters or which are otherwise not
-DOS-compatible (ie, they are not legal DOS filenames for some reason).</P>
-<P>The Samba server can be configured either to ignore such files
-completely, or to present them to the client in "mangled" form. If you
-are not seeing the files at all, the Samba server has most likely been
-configured to ignore them. Consult the man page smb.conf(5) for
-details of how to change this - the parameter you need to set is
-"mangled names = yes".</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.10">2.10 My client reports "cannot locate specified computer" or similar</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="cant_see_server"></A>
-
-This indicates one of three things: You supplied an incorrect server
-name, the underlying TCP/IP layer is not working correctly, or the
-name you specified cannot be resolved.</P>
-<P>After carefully checking that the name you typed is the name you
-should have typed, try doing things like pinging a host or telnetting
-to somewhere on your network to see if TCP/IP is functioning OK. If it
-is, the problem is most likely name resolution.</P>
-<P>If your client has a facility to do so, hardcode a mapping between the
-hosts IP and the name you want to use. For example, with Man Manager
-or Windows for Workgroups you would put a suitable entry in the file
-LMHOSTS. If this works, the problem is in the communication between
-your client and the netbios name server. If it does not work, then
-there is something fundamental wrong with your naming and the solution
-is beyond the scope of this document.</P>
-<P>If you do not have any server on your subnet supplying netbios name
-resolution, hardcoded mappings are your only option. If you DO have a
-netbios name server running (such as the Samba suite's nmbd program),
-the problem probably lies in the way it is set up. Refer to Section
-Two of this FAQ for more ideas.</P>
-<P>By the way, remember to REMOVE the hardcoded mapping before further
-tests :-) </P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.11">2.11 My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="cant_see_share"></A>
-
-This message indicates that your client CAN locate the specified
-server, which is a good start, but that it cannot find a service of
-the name you gave.</P>
-<P>The first step is to check the exact name of the service you are
-trying to connect to (consult your system administrator). Assuming it
-exists and you specified it correctly (read your client's doco on how
-to specify a service name correctly), read on:</P>
-<P>
-<UL>
-<LI> Many clients cannot accept or use service names longer than eight characters.</LI>
-<LI> Many clients cannot accept or use service names containing spaces.</LI>
-<LI> Some servers (not Samba though) are case sensitive with service names.</LI>
-<LI> Some clients force service names into upper case.</LI>
-</UL>
-</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.12">2.12 My client reports "cannot find domain controller", "cannot log on to the network" or similar </A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="cant_see_net"></A>
-
-Nothing is wrong - Samba does not implement the primary domain name
-controller stuff for several reasons, including the fact that the
-whole concept of a primary domain controller and "logging in to a
-network" doesn't fit well with clients possibly running on multiuser
-machines (such as users of smbclient under Unix). Having said that,
-several developers are working hard on building it in to the next
-major version of Samba. If you can contribute, send a message to
-<A HREF="mailto:samba-bugs@anu.edu.au">samba-bugs@anu.edu.au</A> !</P>
-<P>Seeing this message should not affect your ability to mount redirected
-disks and printers, which is really what all this is about.</P>
-<P>For many clients (including Windows for Workgroups and Lan Manager),
-setting the domain to STANDALONE at least gets rid of the message.</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.13">2.13 Printing doesn't work :-(</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="no_printing"></A>
- </P>
-<P>Make sure that the specified print command for the service you are
-connecting to is correct and that it has a fully-qualified path (eg.,
-use "/usr/bin/lpr" rather than just "lpr", if you happen to be using
-Unix).</P>
-<P>Make sure that the spool directory specified for the service is
-writable by the user connected to the service. </P>
-<P>Make sure that the user specified in the service is permitted to use
-the printer.</P>
-<P>Check the debug log produced by smbd. Search for the printer name and
-see if the log turns up any clues. Note that error messages to do with
-a service ipc$ are meaningless - they relate to the way the client
-attempts to retrieve status information when using the LANMAN1
-protocol.</P>
-<P>If using WfWg then you need to set the default protocol to TCP/IP, not
-Netbeui. This is a WfWg bug.</P>
-<P>If using the Lanman1 protocol (the default) then try switching to
-coreplus. Also not that print status error messages don't mean
-printing won't work. The print status is received by a different
-mechanism.</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.14">2.14 My programs install on the server OK, but refuse to work properly</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="programs_wont_run"></A>
-
-There are numerous possible reasons for this, but one MAJOR
-possibility is that your software uses locking. Make sure you are
-using Samba 1.6.11 or later. It may also be possible to work around
-the problem by setting "locking=no" in the Samba configuration file
-for the service the software is installed on. This should be regarded
-as a strictly temporary solution.</P>
-<P>In earlier Samba versions there were some difficulties with the very
-latest Microsoft products, particularly Excel 5 and Word for Windows
-6. These should have all been solved. If not then please let Andrew
-Tridgell know via email at
-<A HREF="mailto:samba-bugs@anu.edu.au">samba-bugs@anu.edu.au</A>.</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.15">2.15 My "server string" doesn't seem to be recognised</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="bad_server_string"></A>
-
-OR My client reports the default setting, eg. "Samba 1.9.15p4", instead
-of what I have changed it to in the smb.conf file.</P>
-<P>You need to use the -C option in nmbd. The "server string" affects
-what smbd puts out and -C affects what nmbd puts out.</P>
-<P>Current versions of Samba (1.9.16 +) have combined these options into
-the "server string" field of smb.conf, -C for nmbd is now obsolete.</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.16">2.16 My client reports "This server is not configured to list shared resources" </A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="cant_list_shares"></A>
-
-Your guest account is probably invalid for some reason. Samba uses the
-guest account for browsing in smbd. Check that your guest account is
-valid.</P>
-<P>See also 'guest account' in smb.conf man page.</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.17">2.17 Issues specific to Unix and Unix-like systems</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="UnixIssues"></A>
-</P>
-
-<H3>Printing doesn't work with my Unix Samba server</H3>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="no_printing"></A>
- </P>
-<P>The user "nobody" often has problems with printing, even if it worked
-with an earlier version of Samba. Try creating another guest user other
-than "nobody".</P>
-
-<H3>Log message "you appear to have a trapdoor uid system" </H3>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="trapdoor_uid"></A>
-
-This can have several causes. It might be because you are using a uid
-or gid of 65535 or -1. This is a VERY bad idea, and is a big security
-hole. Check carefully in your /etc/passwd file and make sure that no
-user has uid 65535 or -1. Especially check the "nobody" user, as many
-broken systems are shipped with nobody setup with a uid of 65535.</P>
-<P>It might also mean that your OS has a trapdoor uid/gid system :-)</P>
-<P>This means that once a process changes effective uid from root to
-another user it can't go back to root. Unfortunately Samba relies on
-being able to change effective uid from root to non-root and back
-again to implement its security policy. If your OS has a trapdoor uid
-system this won't work, and several things in Samba may break. Less
-things will break if you use user or server level security instead of
-the default share level security, but you may still strike
-problems.</P>
-<P>The problems don't give rise to any security holes, so don't panic,
-but it does mean some of Samba's capabilities will be unavailable.
-In particular you will not be able to connect to the Samba server as
-two different uids at once. This may happen if you try to print as a
-"guest" while accessing a share as a normal user. It may also affect
-your ability to list the available shares as this is normally done as
-the guest user.</P>
-<P>Complain to your OS vendor and ask them to fix their system.</P>
-<P>Note: the reason why 65535 is a VERY bad choice of uid and gid is that
-it casts to -1 as a uid, and the setreuid() system call ignores (with
-no error) uid changes to -1. This means any daemon attempting to run
-as uid 65535 will actually run as root. This is not good!</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.18">2.18 Issues specific to IBM OS/2 systems</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="OS2Issues"></A>
-</P>
-<P>
-<A HREF="http://carol.wins.uva.nl/~leeuw/samba/samba2.html">Samba for OS/2</A></P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.19">2.19 Issues specific to IBM MVS systems</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="MVSIssues"></A>
-</P>
-<P>
-<A HREF="ftp://ftp.mks.com/pub/samba/">Samba for OS/390 MVS</A></P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.20">2.20 Issues specific to Digital VMS systems</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="VMSIssues"></A>
-</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.21">2.21 Issues specific to Amiga systems</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="AmigaIssues"></A>
-</P>
-<P>
-<A HREF="http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c948374/Amiga/Samba/">Samba for Amiga</A></P>
-<P>There is a mailing list for Samba on the Amiga.</P>
-<P>Subscribing.</P>
-<P>Send an email to rask-samba-request@kampsax.dtu.dk with the word subscribe
-in the message. The list server will use the address in the Reply-To: or
-From: header field, in that order.</P>
-<P>Unsubscribing.</P>
-<P>Send an email to rask-samba-request@kampsax.dtu.dk with the word
-unsubscribe in the message. The list server will use the address in the
-Reply-To: or From: header field, in that order. If you are unsure which
-address you are subscribed with, look at the headers. You should see a
-"From " (no colon) or Return-Path: header looking something like</P>
-<P>rask-samba-owner-myname=my.domain@kampsax.dtu.dk</P>
-<P>where myname=my.domain gives you the address myname@my.domain. This also
-means that I will always be able to find out which address is causing
-bounces, for example.
-List archive.</P>
-<P>Messages sent to the list are archived in HTML. See the mailing list home
-page at
-<A HREF="http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c948374/Amiga/Samba/mailinglist/">http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c948374/Amiga/Samba/mailinglist/</A></P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.22">2.22 Issues specific to Novell IntraNetware systems</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="NetwareIssues"></A>
-</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.23">2.23 Issues specific to Stratos VOS systems</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="NetwareIssues"></A>
-</P>
-<P>
-<A HREF="ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/tools/">Samba for Stratus VOS</A></P>
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