1 <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 42. Samba and Other CIFS Clients</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.68.1"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide"><link rel="up" href="Appendix.html" title="Part VI. Reference Section"><link rel="prev" href="Portability.html" title="Chapter 41. Portability"><link rel="next" href="speed.html" title="Chapter 43. 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 42. 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 42. 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="surname">Vernooij</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">The Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><code class="email"><<a 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="surname">Terpstra</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><code class="email"><<a 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="surname">Shearer</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><code class="email"><<a 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="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 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#id2655390">Macintosh Clients</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2655474">OS2 Client</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2655480">Configuring OS/2 Warp Connect or OS/2 Warp 4</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2655600">Configuring Other Versions of OS/2</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2655656">Printer Driver Download for OS/2 Clients</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2655744">Windows for Workgroups</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2655750">Latest TCP/IP Stack from Microsoft</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2655833">Delete .pwl Files After Password Change</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2655859">Configuring Windows for Workgroups Password Handling</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2655912">Password Case Sensitivity</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2655940">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#id2655998">Windows 95/98</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2656067">Speed Improvement</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2656087">Windows 2000 Service Pack 2</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Other-Clients.html#id2656277">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="id2655390"></a>Macintosh Clients</h2></div></div></div><p>
2 <a class="indexterm" name="id2655398"></a>
3 Yes. <a href="http://www.thursby.com/" target="_top">Thursby</a> has a CIFS client/server called <a href="http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html" target="_top">DAVE</a>. They test it against Windows 95, Windows
4 NT/200x/XP, and Samba for compatibility issues. At the time of this writing, DAVE was at version 5.1. Please
5 refer to Thursby's Web site for more information regarding this product.
7 <a class="indexterm" name="id2655425"></a>
8 <a class="indexterm" name="id2655432"></a>
9 Alternatives include two free implementations of AppleTalk for several kinds of UNIX machines and several more
10 commercial ones. These products allow you to run file services and print services natively to Macintosh
11 users, with no additional support required on the Macintosh. The two free implementations are <a href="http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/" target="_top">Netatalk</a> and <a href="http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/appletalk/atalk.html" target="_top">CAP</a>. What Samba offers MS Windows users, these
12 packages offer to Macs. For more info on these packages, Samba, and Linux (and other UNIX-based systems), see
13 <a href="http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html" target="_top">http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html.</a>
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="id2655474"></a>OS2 Client</h2></div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2655480"></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
15 system on a blank system is explained in the Warp manual. If Warp
16 has already been installed, but you now want to install the
17 networking support, use the “<span class="quote">Selective Install for Networking</span>”
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
19 in the manual and just barely in the online documentation. Start
20 <span><strong class="command">MPTS.EXE</strong></span>, click on <span class="guiicon">OK</span>, click on <span class="guimenu">Configure LAPS</span>, and click
21 on <span class="guimenu">IBM OS/2 NETBIOS OVER TCP/IP</span> in <span class="guilabel">Protocols</span>. This line
22 is then moved to <span class="guilabel">Current Configuration</span>. Select that line,
23 click on <span class="guimenuitem">Change number</span>, and increase it from 0 to 1. Save this
24 configuration.</p><p>If the Samba server is not on your local subnet, you
25 can optionally add IP names and addresses of these servers
26 to the <span class="guimenu">Names List</span> or specify a WINS server (NetBIOS
27 Nameserver in IBM and RFC terminology). For Warp Connect, you
28 may need to download an update for <code class="constant">IBM Peer</code> to bring it on
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="id2655600"></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
31 <a href="ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/BusSys/Clients/LANMAN.OS2/" target="_top">
32 ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/BusSys/Clients/LANMAN.OS2/</a>. In a nutshell, edit
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">
37 </pre><p>before you install the client. Also, do not use the included NE2000 driver because it is buggy.
38 Try the NE2000 or NS2000 driver from <a href="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/network/ndis/" target="_top">
39 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/network/ndis/</a> instead.
40 </p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2655656"></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
41 world-readable. Copy your OS/2 driver files there. The <code class="filename">.EA_</code>
42 files must still be separate, so you will need to use the original install files
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,
44 <a class="indexterm" name="id2655691"></a>os2 driver map.
45 Next, in the file specified by <em class="replaceable"><code>filename</code></em>, map the
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>
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
48 device name, the first attempt to download the driver will
49 actually download the files, but the OS/2 client will tell
50 you the driver is not available. On the second attempt, it
51 will work. This is fixed simply by adding the device name
52 to the mapping, after which it will work on the first attempt.
53 </p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2655744"></a>Windows for Workgroups</h2></div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2655750"></a>Latest TCP/IP Stack from Microsoft</h3></div></div></div><p>Use the latest TCP/IP stack from Microsoft if you use Windows
54 for Workgroups. The early TCP/IP stacks had lots of bugs.</p><p>
55 Microsoft has released an incremental upgrade to its TCP/IP 32-bit VxD drivers. The latest release can be
56 found at ftp.microsoft.com, located in <code class="filename">/Softlib/MSLFILES/TCP32B.EXE</code>. There is an
57 update.txt file there that describes the problems that were fixed. New files include
58 <code class="filename">WINSOCK.DLL</code>, <code class="filename">TELNET.EXE</code>, <code class="filename">WSOCK.386</code>,
59 <code class="filename">VNBT.386</code>, <code class="filename">WSTCP.386</code>, <code class="filename">TRACERT.EXE</code>,
60 <code class="filename">NETSTAT.EXE</code>, and <code class="filename">NBTSTAT.EXE</code>.
62 More information about this patch is available in <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q99891/" target="_top">Knowledge Base article 99891</a>.
63 </p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2655833"></a>Delete .pwl Files After Password Change</h3></div></div></div><p>
64 Windows for Workgroups does a lousy job with passwords. When you change passwords on either
65 the UNIX box or the PC, the safest thing to do is delete the .pwl files in the Windows
66 directory. The PC will complain about not finding the files, but will soon get over it,
67 allowing you to enter the new password.
69 If you do not do this, you may find that Windows for Workgroups remembers and uses the old
70 password, even if you told it a new one.
72 Often Windows for Workgroups will totally ignore a password you give it in a dialog box.
73 </p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2655859"></a>Configuring Windows for Workgroups Password Handling</h3></div></div></div><p>
74 <a class="indexterm" name="id2655867"></a>
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.
76 To install it, type <strong class="userinput"><code>EXPAND A:\ADMINCFG.EX_ C:\WINDOWS\ADMINCFG.EXE</code></strong>. Then add an icon
77 for it via the <span class="application">Program Manager</span> <span class="guimenu">New</span> menu. This program allows
78 you to control how WFW handles passwords, Disable Password Caching and so on, for use with <a class="indexterm" name="id2655903"></a>security = user.
79 </p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2655912"></a>Password Case Sensitivity</h3></div></div></div><p>Windows for Workgroups uppercases the password before sending it to the server.
80 UNIX passwords can be case-sensitive though. Check the <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> information on
81 <a class="indexterm" name="id2655929"></a>password level to specify what characters
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="id2655940"></a>Use TCP/IP as Default Protocol</h3></div></div></div><p>To support print queue reporting, you may find
83 that you have to use TCP/IP as the default protocol under
84 Windows for Workgroups. For some reason, if you leave NetBEUI as the default,
85 it may break the print queue reporting on some systems.
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>
87 Note that some people have found that setting <em class="parameter"><code>DefaultRcvWindow</code></em> in
88 the <em class="parameter"><code>[MSTCP]</code></em> section of the
89 <code class="filename">SYSTEM.INI</code> file under Windows for Workgroups to 3072 gives a
92 My own experience with DefaultRcvWindow is that I get a much better
93 performance with a large value (16384 or larger). Other people have
94 reported that anything over 3072 slows things down enormously. One
95 person even reported a speed drop of a factor of 30 when he went from
97 </p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2655998"></a>Windows 95/98</h2></div></div></div><p>
98 When using Windows 95 OEM SR2, the following updates are recommended where Samba
99 is being used. Please note that the changes documented in
100 <a href="Other-Clients.html#speedimpr" title="Speed Improvement">Speed Improvement</a> will affect you once these
101 updates have been installed.
103 There are more updates than the ones mentioned here. Refer to the
104 Microsoft Web site for all currently available updates to your specific version
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>
107 Also, if using <span class="application">MS Outlook,</span> it is desirable to
108 install the <span><strong class="command">OLEUPD.EXE</strong></span> fix. This
109 fix may stop your machine from hanging for an extended period when exiting
110 Outlook, and you may notice a significant speedup when accessing network
111 neighborhood services.
112 </p><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2656067"></a>Speed Improvement</h3></div></div></div><p>
113 Configure the Windows 95 TCP/IP registry settings to give better
114 performance. I use a program called <span><strong class="command">MTUSPEED.exe</strong></span> that I got off the
115 Internet. There are various other utilities of this type freely available.
116 </p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2656087"></a>Windows 2000 Service Pack 2</h2></div></div></div><p>
117 There are several annoyances with Windows 2000 SP2, one of which
118 only appears when using a Samba server to host user profiles
119 to Windows 2000 SP2 clients in a Windows domain. This assumes
120 that Samba is a member of the domain, but the problem will
121 most likely occur if it is not.
123 In order to serve profiles successfully to Windows 2000 SP2
124 clients (when not operating as a PDC), Samba must have
125 <a class="indexterm" name="id2656105"></a>nt acl support = no
126 added to the file share that houses the roaming profiles.
127 If this is not done, then the Windows 2000 SP2 client will
128 complain about not being able to access the profile (Access
129 Denied) and create multiple copies of it on disk (DOMAIN.user.001,
130 DOMAIN.user.002, and so on). See the <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> man page
131 for more details on this option. Also note that the
132 <a class="indexterm" name="id2656124"></a>nt acl support parameter was formally a global parameter in
133 releases prior to Samba 2.2.2.
135 <a href="Other-Clients.html#minimalprofile" title="Example 42.1. Minimal Profile Share">Following example</a> provides a minimal profile share.
136 </p><div class="example"><a name="minimalprofile"></a><p class="title"><b>Example 42.1. Minimal Profile Share</b></p><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="id2656170"></a><em class="parameter"><code>path = /export/profile</code></em></td></tr><tr><td><a class="indexterm" name="id2656183"></a><em class="parameter"><code>create mask = 0600</code></em></td></tr><tr><td><a class="indexterm" name="id2656196"></a><em class="parameter"><code>directory mask = 0700</code></em></td></tr><tr><td><a class="indexterm" name="id2656208"></a><em class="parameter"><code>nt acl support = no</code></em></td></tr><tr><td><a class="indexterm" name="id2656221"></a><em class="parameter"><code>read only = no</code></em></td></tr></table></div><p>
137 The reason for this bug is that the Windows 200x SP2 client copies
138 the security descriptor for the profile that contains
139 the Samba server's SID, and not the domain SID. The client
140 compares the SID for SAMBA\user and realizes it is
141 different from the one assigned to DOMAIN\user; hence,
142 <span class="errorname">access denied</span> message.
144 When the <a class="indexterm" name="id2656249"></a>nt acl support parameter is disabled, Samba will send
145 the Windows 200x client a response to the QuerySecurityDescriptor trans2 call, which causes the client
146 to set a default ACL for the profile. This default ACL includes:
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
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="id2656277"></a>Windows NT 3.1</h2></div></div></div><p>If you have problems communicating across routers with Windows
149 NT 3.1 workstations, read <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;Q103765" target="_top">this Microsoft Knowledge Base article:</a>.
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