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A SCO Openserver to Red Hat Linux Conversion So, to sum it up, the conversion went well, although it took longer than planned. I had the good fortune that our existing SCO servers continued to work without problems throughout the entire process. Going forward with Linux though, we will be better able to take advantage of new hardware options. The user desktop machines that we have moved from RHEL 4 to Ubuntu 10.10 work very nicely, and, given the same hardware, work more quickly. I was also able to drop some Hardware Maintenance Agreements, and saving money is a good thing.


Title Date Comments
Slow Finder when browsing SMB Network Shares in Snow Leopard   2011 04  2012/08/08 anonymous
- Mac OS X finder in Snow Leopard, when bound to Active Directory can be painfully slow at just listing files on a SMB share. -
Converting SCO to Linux - Another one down, two left   2011 04  2011/04/05 BigDumbDinosaur
- Our efforts to get clients off OSR5 and on to Linux commenced in earnest in 2004, which was right after SCO started with their "Linux stole our code" lawsuits. -
A SCO Openserver to Red Hat Linux Conversion   2011 04  2011/04/02 TonyLawrence
- A detailed history of a SCO to Linux Conversion - including desktop users. -
Map network drive, connect as different user to same Server   2005 02  2011/11/02 anonymous
- How to map an XP network drive more than once even though XP doesn't want you to do that. -
An Annotated Guide To Samba Configuration   2005 09  2010/06/20 anonymous
- Samba is the Open Source Software package that allows a UNIX or Linux server to participate in a Windows network, and even become the Windows primary domain controller (PDC). -
How do I fix files showing up as 0k on a SMB mount in Snow Leopard?   2010 09  2011/01/14 RobM
- We have been battling a strange Snow Leopard font issue (who hasn't) for a while now, and this one seemed to work on some SL machines, and not others. As it turned out, I had made some changes as to the way SMB connections happen on my machine, so I couldn't reproduce this issue. I had even made this change on a couple of our Art department managers machines, so we couldn't get it to mess up on their machines either. The problem presents itself like this: -
WINDOWS NETWORKING: Doing It the Samba Way   2003 10 
- WINDOWS NETWORKING: Doing It the Samba Way. The majority of businesses have at least a couple of PC's running Windows, which means Microsoft networking seems to be as unavoidable as death and taxes. -
Account Currently Disabled   2009 05 
- At first I thought this was because of the upgrade. He had done a fresh install and had copied over his entire /etc/samba directory. -
When Samba Pigs Fly   2009 11 
- Yesterday a customer called because he needed to be able to write into a certain share on his Samba shares. -
Facetwin logs wrong ownership   2009 09 
- Facetwin writes a message to /usr/adm/syslog every time it finds a file in my /1/users/prog that has ownership other than prog! -
Why can't my other sub-net browse the Visionfs or Samba shares?   2009 09 
- That's the way Microsoft wants it to work. First, if all you want to do is ACCESS the shares, you can, even though they don't pop up in Network neighborhood -
Samba Configs - six hours!   2008 07 
- They told her it would require six hours of time AND 'training' to fix the Samba configuration! -
 
 
Kerio Connect Mailserver
 
 
smbclient (Samba)   2005 05 
- For testing, the most common use is to list shares on a Windows machine or some other Samba server. -
Samba problems   2005 02 
- Common samba problems: adding passwords for Windows clients and adding or mapping Windows user names. -
SAMBA   2004 03 
- The open source project that lets Unix/Linux machines be part of Windows Network Neighborhood. That this exists at all is amazing enough, given that Microsoft doesn't willingly tell anyone how SMB works and deliberately goes out of their way to break any attempt to clone it. -
WINS   2004 02 
- A WINS server provides browsing information about machines on its network: the purpose is to provide the ability to browse across networks withoutpassing broadcast packets between them. Until fairly recently, Samba couldn't function as a WINS server, but now can. -
WinPopup   2004 02  2010/02/11 anonymous
- This is a perl script that sends out a SMB Message to all users via "WinPopUp", using SAMBA. -
Samba and PDC's   2003 10 
- Pet peeve though, which has nothing particularly to do with Samba: I see far too many networks with domain controllers that never should have been set up that way. -
Windows Server Digital Signing   2003 08 
- Windows Server Digital Signing can preven Unix SMB browsing (Samba, Facetwin, Visionfs) -
Network Neighborhood, Visionfs, Samba Authentication and all that   2003 05 
- Unix and Linux machines have been able to provide Network Neighborhood style file and print services for some time now, but I constantly see confusion and problems due to misunderstanding of how these things work. -
Moving from SCO to Linux   2001 10 
- However, it was time to change. I've known for sometime that I needed to pay more attention to Linux. I had installed Linux on spare machines, and played with it here and there, but that isn't enough. To become as conversant with Linux as I am with SCO, I needed to use it every day; I needed to experience the problems, to learn the glitches, to discover the ins and outs. The only way to do that was to make it my personal desktop. -
Couldn't see Samba shares   2000 11 
- ARTICLES:/Problems/index.html#browsesubnet:Couldn't see Samba shares:November 2000:Tony Lawrence:Microsoft|Networking|Samba:smb:short::NOINDEX -
Using Samba (O'Reilly)   2000 05 
- This is the O'Reilly treatment of Samba, and it is also the book "Officially adopted by the Samba team". It includes a CDROM that has source and binaries for Samba 2.0.5a. This definitely is the best Samba book I've read yet. It is complete, it explains both the Windows and Unix aspects of SMB, and it includes detailed examples with appropriate diagrams and screen shots. The only possible complaint I could make is that 2.1 came out in time for references to get into the text- I wouldn't say these are confusing, and it's good that they were able to include such late breaking changes, but it's still just a little disconcerting. -
Samba   1999 08 
- I just checked Amazon: this is already out of stock. While that may be that the publisher screwed up and didn't print enough on the first run, I suspect it is more to do with the increasing popularity of Samba, particularly (of course) on Linux. -
Samba-3 By Example and The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide   2005 07 
- I have to say first that I do not like the pedantic style of Samba-3 by Example. I feel like I'm taking a certification exam, and even though each hypothetical situation is followed by the solution, I just keep finding myself annoyed by that feeling. -
How can I send WinPopup messages to Windows machines?   1997-2003 
- How can I send WinPopup messages to Windows machines? -
How can I mount Windows shares on the SCO server using Visionfs?   1997-2003 
- How can I mount Windows shares on the SCO server using Visionfs? -
New Samba exploit   2004 12 
- This could allow someone who had gained internal access through hacking a non-admin account to escalate their privilege and get root access to the Samba server. -
samba password synchronization -->Re PasswordSynchronisation   1997-2004 
- samba password synchronization -->Re: PasswordSynchronisation -
samba dns resolv.conf -->Re Samba and DNS issues   1997-2004 
- For anyone that might be interested the answer is smb.conf: name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast -
Windows 2000 through Samba -->Re problems printing fromWindows 2000 Server to SCO printer   1997-2004 
- Windows 2000 through Samba - getting Windoze 2000 to properly print to various print servers. -
smbpasswd samba password -->Re Samba   1997-2004 
- smbpasswd samba password -->Re: Samba -
mandrake cups printing -->Mandrake CUPS Samba Printing   1997-2004 
- mandrake cups printing -->Mandrake CUPS SambaPrinting -
samba visionfs slow   1997-2004 
- If that takes forever but using the IP address is instantaneous, you have a mess somewhere between HOSTS and LMHOSTS probably on the Windoze side.` -
Samba vs. visionfs   1997-2004 
- Something causes vfslockd to die. It should be found and corrected. I'd start with applying any os patches that, uh, apply, and patching visionfs up to the latest version. -
Windows XP network neighborhood firewall browsing   1997-2004 
- I have seen that when you change the name of an account. It sends the old name and the new password if I remember right. -
Microsoft Word visionfs -->Re VisonFS3.00.925 and WinWord 2000 trouble, Answer from SCO   1997-2004 
- A peek at how the inner workings of Word can slow down network opens.0 -
Samba semaphores -->Re Samba on SCO   1997-2004 
- Clearing Samba semaphore - ERROR: root did not create the semaphore -
Windows 2000 security policy passwords unencrypted -->Re W2k passwords and VFS   1997-2004 
- Windows 2000 security policy passwords unencrypted -->Re:W2k passwords and VFS -
samba -->Re Help Samba!   1997-2004 
- samba troubleshooting suggestions from an old newsgroup post -
 
 
Kerio Control Firewall
 
 
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