Changes between Version 35 and Version 36 of FAQ


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Timestamp:
May 21, 2010, 6:37:13 AM (14 years ago)
Author:
Herwig Bauernfeind
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    4444|| IBM-866 || not tested, but we'd like to get results ||
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    46 General advice:  Enter UTF-8, even if your system is running on other codepages, this will most likely give you the best results. On systems running on IBM-850 no change is required).
     46General advice:  Enter IBM-850, even if your system is running on other codepages, this will most likely give you the best results. On systems running on IBM-850 no change is required).
    4747
    4848''Note: Characters below 128 work on any codepage. Issues are only seen when using characters between 128 and 255 in file and directory names.''[[BR]]
    49 ''Note: Recent sscc.exe knows these issues and provides appropriate additions to smb.conf.''
     49''Note: Recent sscc.exe knows about these issues and provides appropriate additions to smb.conf.''
    5050----
    5151=== The Samba Client is really a mess, there is ndpsmb.dll, Netdrive, EVFS, EVFSGUI, the Samba client utilities - what is all this about and how do these go together? ===
     
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    150150''Note: EVFS comes with eComStation 2.x''[[BR]]
    151 ''Note: smb.pdr can be found [http://members.aon.at/herwig.bauernfeind/samba/#SambaPortDriver here]''.
     151''Note: smb.pdr can be found [ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/samba/pdr/smb_pdr-1.0-20090509.zip here]''.[[BR]]
     152''Note: The Samba Client is only a client, it cannot (unlike IBM Peer) share files and directories, you need the Samba server in order to do this.
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    185 === Marcel Müller wrote: ===
    186 > since I switched my linux server with a 3.0.2x build of samba to debian lenny with samba 3.2.5, the throughput from OS/2 clients using IBM peer dramatically degraded. I get at most 2.5 MB/s when writing from the OS/2 client to the samba server. The CPU load is low CPU at both systems.[[BR]]
     186=== Bad performance using IBM Peer/LAN-Requester as client for a Samba 3.2 server (or better) ===
     187Marcel Müller wrote:[[BR]]
     188> since I switched my Linux server with a 3.0.2x build of Samba to Debian Lenny with Samba 3.2.5, the throughput from OS/2 clients using IBM peer dramatically degraded. I get at most 2.5 MB/s when writing from the OS/2 client to the samba server. The CPU load is low on both systems.[[BR]]
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    188190Further analysis showed that the OS/2 chooses sometimes Read/Write RAW and sometimes Read/Write MPX at the connection setup. The MPX modes were normally intended to use simultaneous parallel connections over connectionless transports which does not apply to TCPBEUI.[[BR]]
     
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    196198'''Solution:'''[[BR]]
    197 '''========='''[[BR]]
     199'''======='''[[BR]]
    198200
    199201Disable the MPX modes in the IBM peer requester configuration:[[BR]]