hanes

I have always had problems getting samba to work well. I am in a wireless home network and I want to share my mp3's and movies, I want to do this from my Mandriva computer. I want these directories to be readable/writable by guests in the network. I want my computer to show up in "Network Neighborhood".

After screwing with this file, I gotta come here for help. What am I doing wrong?

smb.conf

[global]
workgroup = ShareGroup
server string = Samba Server %v
netbios name=netbiosname
security=share
map to guest = Bad User
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
printcap cache time = 60
printcap name = cups
dns proxy = No

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
browseable = No

[print$]
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
write list = @adm, root
inherit permissions = Yes
guest ok = Yes

[pdf-gen]
comment = PDF Generator (only valid users)
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
printing = bsd
print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf "%s" "%H" "//%L/%u" "%m" "%I" "%J" &
lpq command = /bin/true
lprm command = lprm -P'%p' %j
[printers]
path = /var/spool/samba
comment = All Printers
browseable = yes
printable = yes
print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r
guest ok = yes
use client driver = yes

[DataShare]
path = /mnt/data/Share/
comment = Downloads
browseable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
read list = hanes
write list = hanes
admin users = hanes
valid users = hanes
null passwords = yes
guest ok = yes

[Music]
path = /mnt/data/music/
comment = Music
browseable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
null passwords = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only=yes

When I try to connect from my laptop I get this error in the samba log.

[2006/04/18 16:56:18, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(835)

t43 (192.168.2.133) closed connection to service DataShare

[2006/04/18 17:29:08, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_data(526)

read_data: read failure for 4 bytes to client 192.168.2.133. Error = Connection reset by peer

[2006/04/18 17:29:09, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(835)

t43 (192.168.2.133) closed connection to service DataShare

Any ideas how to fix my Samba?

Well this is my last post because I really don't want to keep this thread at the top, I never though it would get a big reaction.

My IP keeps fricking switching because my DSL modem sucks (*kick *kick). Anyways, you might not want to try and do anything to the IP above because it is no longer me, and there is a slight chance that, the IP is someone else who may actually be angry if you delete his system.

Just thought I should say that.

I didnt find it like super offensive or anything!

I can see how you thought how you might have thought it was trollish or whatever simply because of the reaction no passwords get... anyways I didnt lodge a complaint, and I dont actually want to lodge a complaint

"Personally attacked" nah... the troll stuff I kinda found offensive, that truly was not the purpose of my original post. Also I would never troll this board because I quite often get excellent answers from it. I just thought I had enough experience to call this not such a bad idea. I see why the Linspire guys are defending themselves so much.

My ports are closed, I have shorewall on, I have a router with not ports forwarded. If thats is not secure enough I will be very suprised as well as angry with my router, shorewall, and whatever process opened a port without me knowing.

Oh yeah by the way I'll probably manually switch my IP friday because when my girlfriend gets back in town I dont want her windows box magically disappearing. I only have one computer running right now, and the data HD is disconnected so really, have fun till fri night. (*cross my fingers and hope im right)

Hanes

Hi, My ip right now is 216.26.208.148. Please leave port 80 alone as it is not the linux box anyways (its actually a hardware camera server, should be fine) behind a NAT.

My servers are very well firewalled and are not on this ip range anyways, they are at work. This desktop has some important stuff and I would be sad to have to reinstall from backups, but I guess thems the breaks.

I am not trying to be a troll, I love linux, and I have always hated typing in a pass on my desktop... I haven't had any problems lately, and I doubt I will. By the way I am not a complete idiot as some of you wonderfull people have commented, I have an MSc in Comp Sci with a thesis in Public/Private Key encryption and suprisingly its many vulnerabilities. This is not to brag, I am sure there are many of you with MUCH more experience/qualifications than me and admittedly theoretical knowledge proves little about practical knowledge. Simply browsing this board will find many posts of my many silly questions. But calling me a troll, just cause I made a simple post with my opinion hurts.

I think posting how your opinions are different are fine, but insinuating that I am stupid is rude. I know many of people who would never switch to Linux if they had to type in their pass to change their time. Root passless will work for them while still being compromised MUCH MUCH MUCH less than the alternative (Win XP).

Anyways my IP should stay the same till my provider tries to switch it (weekly?). If you succeed (I admit its possible) please leave the data alone, but I dont mind having to format my OS to learn the lesson I will check for later this week.

Hanes

Hi all, I just removed a password from my root account the other day (passwd -d root) and I feel so free haha!

I just wanted to say this because of all the nutso posts I see against this. I avoided doing this for a while but then it occured to me that:

a) I run Win XP / Win 98 on most of my machines , they are ALWAYS running as root! At least on my Linux boxes the virus/hacker has to type SU

b There arent a lot of viruses running around on Linux (yet)

c) there just freaking desktops anyways! I backup important stuff!

d) I format my computer quite often anyways to try out different distros

e) Entering passwords is ANNOYING, especially for meaningless trivial things like changing the time, adding new wallpapers (into /usr/share/wallpapers, connecting to wireless networks, adding a printer, adding new fonts, loading the control center, and deleting fiiles

Anyways if any newbies are annoyed by passwords I wouldnt worry about it, I know you hear tons of people say things like "but you can DELETE ANYTHING", but guess what you can do that with most OS's out there.... I have yet to mistakenly delete my /

Obviously my servers have passwords that I change monthly, but thats another story. Even the computers that are somewhat public (ie others use them) I use passwords with...

On a related point it would be neat to have a password wizard, which asked the user what he DIDN't want to enter a password for, this way users wouldnt feel the need to remove passwords, which if EVERYONE did it, might encourage virus writers. (I finnally snapped when I changed my time for DST, instead of entering the password I just removed the password).

Hanes

My Flash Video Install Tutorial

GNU nano 1.3.8 File: /etc/fstab

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1

/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0

/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0

/dev/sda1 /mnt/data vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0

none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

I have a drive, /dev/sda1 that I mount as /mnt/data (fat32), this drive has worked for a long time, now all of a sudden it is read only for everyone but root. Windows can write to it just fine...

I can chown it to the right user, every time I try to mount it right (with umask=0) I still can't get regular users to write to it. Anyone know whats going on?

Hanez

Hi, I am a teacher and I am supposed to pick a computer mag. to subscribe to. I want it to be a general mag (not linux only), but it would be nice if it featured some linux articles (5-40%). Anyone know of a magazine that fits the bill?

Otherwise I am going with PC World or PC Magazine.

Your thoughts would be valuable.

Hanez

well yeah I guess. This is my desktop, and I have always felt slow HD speeds. Why? How do I increase the speed? EG when I am copying gigs of music to the HD the computer is mighty slow. When I do it in windows it is noticeably faster.

You can also instal aMSN messenger, works just like MSN, and its in the repositories. Go to a command line, type "su", give your password and type "urpmi amsn". You should find it in the internet category....

uh :) Maybe I posted the same then Hah... Both computers seem to be a lil slow, and I started this thread as a general Mandriva Speed problem, not about my specific computer. But maybe I just have an old hard drive on that PC?

Does that mean the hardware is UDMA2? Or is it a setting?

Here is another computer (a desktop, athlon 2500, newer computer) and again I really notice a slow hard drive. For example when I am downloading at high speeds, I can barely view a picture.

/dev/hda:
multcount    = 16 (on)
IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
using_dma    =  1 (on)
keepsettings =  0 (off)
readonly     =  0 (off)
readahead    = 256 (on)
geometry     = 59554/16/63, sectors = 60030432, start = 0

Model=Maxtor 93073H4, FwRev=BAC51KJ0, SerialNo=N4119ZVC
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=60028319
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 0:

* signifies the current active mode

Yet again I have only UDMA2. Am I doing something wrong? I dont change anything on my mandriva 2006 installs. And as for hard drive speeds I never notice ANY problems in Windows...

Hanez

uh, this is a regular pc. No scsi (no money for scsi drives). No SATA just IDE. I guess I could go software raid... but I would think timed backups are just as good right?

IBM has a weird Bios utility... But I can say I did not find one option that had the letters UDMA in it... so no :)

Anyone other tips?

Hi, I have two HD's on a server and I want to back up everything, weekly. I am using the mcc backup tool, but I cannot figure out how to backup EVERYTHING. Should I not bother? (is /etc and /home good enough in case of a crash?). I guess in the other tab I can just say back up /.

This is a regular desktop PC (ibm netvista) posing as a server... pretty serious server though that is in use every business day.

Also should I be using a different tool for this, or is the mcc one dependable?

Hanes

Your disk is only at UDMA 2? Either you have a very old disk or something is not set correctly in your BIOS. Note your low buffered disk read of 23.4 MB/sec. Not good.

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Uh... This is an IBM Thinkpad T42 1.7GHz, Pentium M processor. 512 MB Ram. Anyone know whats going on?

daniewicz is my printout:

[root@localhost hanes]# hdparm -iv /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

multcount = 16 (on)

IO_support = 1 (32-bit)

unmaskirq = 1 (on)

using_dma = 1 (on)

keepsettings = 0 (off)

readonly = 0 (off)

readahead = 256 (on)

geometry = 59554/16/63, sectors = 60030432, start = 0

Model=Maxtor 93073H4, FwRev=BAC51KJ0, SerialNo=N4119ZVC

Config={ Fixed }

RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57

BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16

CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=60028319

IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}

PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4

DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2

UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2

AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled

Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 0:

* signifies the current active mode

[root@localhost hanes]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

Timing cached reads: 1252 MB in 2.00 seconds = 624.85 MB/sec

Timing buffered disk reads: 72 MB in 3.07 seconds = 23.43 MB/sec

If you can make anything of this, that would be great. Thanks!

Hanes

About the other users who commented on speed: Yeah, I studied benchmarking, I know there are different way to test speeds. I am not entering my computer in a contest though... I am talking about feel. It FEELS slow. So if you tell me that windows loads the image before, that makes sense, I guess that is why Windows feels a bit faster... Nevertheless I dont reboot very often, only when I go into windows to play a game then come back...

Wow.

I uninstalled KAT, still Konqueor is not even close to explorer. Boot up isn't even comparable to winxp (I dual boot), winxp beats it by about 2 seconds.... Notepad is much faster than kwrite, firefox(xp) has a slight edge on firefox(linux).

I'm not complaining, cause I will take the speed hit to legally use the apps I need but... I can't beleive it. Everyone I know who uses Linux, has the same speed issue as me... Only people I have met through this board diasagree. This is really the first time I have considered I might be doing something wrong.

PS I have 1 gig swap, 700 megs ram....

no... but that will be one of the first things i do when i get home

Well Ok, I dont want to piss anyone off so if I have any portion of the faq I will have underneath it a link to the FAQ section of this board. Like a "taken from" https://mandrivausers.org click here to see if there are any updates to this FAQ type deal.

Question: Under what license (if any) are the faq's? I run a linux faq site and wanted to display some of the mandriva faq's here. They would all have a link back to this board on the original page.

Thanks

hmmmm.... I find trouble believing you guys :(

I love linux, i am very comfy with it. But if you guys telling me it is actually faster than explorer then I am doing something serioulsy wrong.

Hi, I have used linux for the last couple of years. Mostly mandriva, I love the distro. Anyways, last month or so I have been using XP, simply because I want to play Star Wars Battlefront 2. But anyways here I am using this OS and slowly all of a sudden I am USING it .... and heres what I notice

Mandriva ROX in most categories except speed.

I can open up explorer, browse to a file and open it WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY faster then I can in KDE.

Why? I know there are other visual managers but most of em are not visually apealling enough or are "weird".

Anyways have the people on this board noticed this too?

Hanes

AHHHHHHHHH no replies? No one knows? What am I to do?