<chapter id="FAQ-Install">
<title>Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</title>
-<sect1>
-<title>I can't see the Samba server in any browse lists!</title>
-<para>
-See Browsing.html in the docs directory of the samba source
-for more information on browsing.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-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:
-<programlisting>
- net use M: \\mary\fred
-</programlisting>
-The details of how to do this and the specific syntax varies from
-client to client - check your client's documentation.
-</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Some files that I KNOW are on the server don't show up when I view the files from my client!</title>
-<para>See the next question.</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Some files on the server show up with really wierd filenames when I view the files from my client!</title>
-<para>
-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).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-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".
-</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>My client reports "cannot locate specified computer" or similar</title>
-<para>
-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.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-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.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-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 Lan 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.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-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.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-By the way, remember to REMOVE the hardcoded mapping before further
-tests :-)
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
<sect1>
<title>My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</title>
<para>
</simplelist>
</sect1>
-<sect1>
-<title>Printing doesn't work</title>
-<para>
-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").
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Make sure that the spool directory specified for the service is
-writable by the user connected to the service. In particular 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".
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Make sure that the user specified in the service is permitted to use
-the printer.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-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.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If using WfWg then you need to set the default protocol to TCP/IP, not
-Netbeui. This is a WfWg bug.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-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.
-</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>My client reports "This server is not configured to list shared resources"</title>
-<para>
-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.
-</para>
-
-<para>See also 'guest account' in smb.conf man page.</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Log message "you appear to have a trapdoor uid system" </title>
-<para>
-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.
-</para>
-
-<para>It might also mean that your OS has a trapdoor uid/gid system :-)</para>
-
-<para>
-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.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-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.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Complain to your OS vendor and ask them to fix their system.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-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!
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
<sect1>
<title>Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</title>
<para>
</para>
</sect1>
-<sect1>
-<title>How do I set the printer driver name correctly?</title>
-<para>Question:
-<quote> On NT, I opened "Printer Manager" and "Connect to Printer".
- Enter ["\\ptdi270\ps1"] in the box of printer. I got the
- following error message
- </quote></para>
- <para>
- <programlisting>
- You do not have sufficient access to your machine
- to connect to the selected printer, since a driver
- needs to be installed locally.
- </programlisting>
- </para>
-
- <para>Answer:</para>
-
- <para>In the more recent versions of Samba you can now set the "printer
-driver" in smb.conf. This tells the client what driver to use. For
-example:</para>
-<para><programlisting>
- printer driver = HP LaserJet 4L
-</programlisting></para>
-<para>With this, NT knows to use the right driver. You have to get this string
-exactly right.</para>
-
-<para>To find the exact string to use, you need to get to the dialog box in
-your client where you select which printer driver to install. The
-correct strings for all the different printers are shown in a listbox
-in that dialog box.</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
</chapter>
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