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-<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.59.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-general.html" title="Chapter 1. General Information"><link rel="next" href="FAQ-Config.html" title="Chapter 3. Configuration problems"></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 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-general.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-Config.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title"><a name="FAQ-Install"></a>Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</h2></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2808542">I can't see the Samba server in any browse lists!</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2811456">Some files that I KNOW are on the server don't show up when I view the files from my client!</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2811470">Some files on the server show up with really wierd filenames when I view the files from my client!</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2860743">My client reports "cannot locate specified computer" or similar</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2860797">My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2806029">Printing doesn't work</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2807904">My client reports "This server is not configured to list shared resources"</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2807925">Log message "you appear to have a trapdoor uid system" </a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2807990">Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2811127">How do I set the printer driver name correctly?</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2808542"></a>I can't see the Samba server in any browse lists!</h2></div></div><p>
-See Browsing.html in the docs directory of the samba source
-for more information on browsing.
-</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:
-</p><pre class="programlisting">
- net use M: \\mary\fred
-</pre><p>
-The details of how to do this and the specific syntax varies from
-client to client - check your client's documentation.
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2811456"></a>Some files that I KNOW are on the server don't show up when I view the files from my client!</h2></div></div><p>See the next question.</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2811470"></a>Some files on the server show up with really wierd filenames when I view the files from my client!</h2></div></div><p>
-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></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2860743"></a>My client reports "cannot locate specified computer" or similar</h2></div></div><p>
-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 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.
-</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></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2860797"></a>My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</h2></div></div><p>
+<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-general.html" title="Chapter 1. General Information"><link rel="next" href="FAQ-ClientApp.html" title="Chapter 3. Specific client application problems"></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 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-general.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-ClientApp.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="FAQ-Install"></a>Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2816137">My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2816189">Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2816137"></a>My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
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.
trying to connect to (consult your system administrator). Assuming it
exists and you specified it correctly (read your client's docs on how
to specify a service name correctly), read on:
-</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>Many clients cannot accept or use service names longer than eight characters.</td></tr><tr><td>Many clients cannot accept or use service names containing spaces.</td></tr><tr><td>Some servers (not Samba though) are case sensitive with service names.</td></tr><tr><td>Some clients force service names into upper case.</td></tr></table></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2806029"></a>Printing doesn't work</h2></div></div><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").
-</p><p>
-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".
-</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></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2807904"></a>My client reports "This server is not configured to list shared resources"</h2></div></div><p>
-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></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2807925"></a>Log message "you appear to have a trapdoor uid system" </h2></div></div><p>
-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></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2807990"></a>Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</h2></div></div><p>
+</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>Many clients cannot accept or use service names longer than eight characters.</td></tr><tr><td>Many clients cannot accept or use service names containing spaces.</td></tr><tr><td>Some servers (not Samba though) are case sensitive with service names.</td></tr><tr><td>Some clients force service names into upper case.</td></tr></table></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2816189"></a>Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
This is from Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com.
</p><p>
Most likely it's a problem with your time zone settings.
Samba traditionally has had many problems dealing with time zones, due
to the bizarre ways that Microsoft network protocols handle time
zones.
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2811127"></a>How do I set the printer driver name correctly?</h2></div></div><p>Question:
-“ On NT, I opened "Printer Manager" and "Connect to Printer".
- Enter ["\\ptdi270\ps1"] in the box of printer. I got the
- following error message
- ”</p><p>
- </p><pre class="programlisting">
- You do not have sufficient access to your machine
- to connect to the selected printer, since a driver
- needs to be installed locally.
- </pre><p>
- </p><p>Answer:</p><p>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:</p><pre class="programlisting">
- printer driver = HP LaserJet 4L
-</pre><p>With this, NT knows to use the right driver. You have to get this string
-exactly right.</p><p>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.</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-general.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="samba-faq.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-Config.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 1. General Information </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="samba-faq.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 3. Configuration problems</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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