From: Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] samba Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:00:04 +0100

On Thursday 12 August 2004 6:23 pm, phil wrote:

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Anyone with any experience of connecting Linux and OSX? I have 2 linux boxes (SuSe 8.2 & 9.0) at work which seem to connect fine over Samba to Winders machines. The 8.2 doesn't connect to a Samba share on OSX (jaguar), whereas the 9.0 connects - but painfully slow. Any experiences with Samba working at completely different speeds?

Not experienced that particular problem, but there were a lot of fixes applied to samba in the Panther release (specifically when I upgraded OSX to 10.3.3 at a clients a lot of samba issues they had simply vanished)

Ihave Panther on another machine - I'll try from that.

You didn't mention, but I assume that the Windows machines connect to the OSX shares at a reasonable speed ?

Yes, they connect fine.

When you say painfully slow are to referring to the actual time to connect or data transfer to/from the share (or both)

Both.

How are you managing passwords, do you have a samba box running as a PDC, a Windows box doing that or are you not running a domain ?

Not running a domain at the moment.

Anything interesting happening in the Mac's logs when the 8.2 box fails to connect ?

I'll have to check - at the moment it's off as I've run out of elec sockets, and the box with 9 on is plugged in there instead!