Notes about SAMBA

2 November, 2002 - GEST

Slow Samba Links -   

	Dan and Mark found Samba links between DOS boxes and LINUX were slow.  
	Used this solution.

	Change the Samba configuration file on the Linux box: 
	Change the /ETC/SMB.CONF file with:
	socket options = TCP_NODELAY, IPTOS_THROUGHPUT, SO_SNDBUF 4096, SO_RCVBUF 4096 [as one line]
	Save the configuration file. 
	Stop the Samba server with: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop 
	Restart the Samba server with: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start 

Samba on Remote - 

	Samba can be a bit obstinate but there's good documentation in,
		/usr/share/doc/packages/samba/html_docs/using_samba
	Config file for samba in /etc/samba/smb.conf
	Passwords in /etc/samba/smbpasswd
	Add new smb passwords with smbpasswd -U username.
	Sharing home areas at the moment as //Remote/username

Windows Boxes Struggling to resolve -
	The useful programs are,
		smbclient
		nmblookup
	From the windows end,
		use "net view" and "net use"
	Note the presence of file "lmhosts" both on linux and windows.