[ale] SAMBA is driving me nuts

Preston preston.lists at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 11:58:31 EDT 2014


Ah, probably I'm the confused one. I had assumed that sshfs was just the
handler for samba. I'm taking it as that is not the case.

options?

On 6/11/2014 10:47 AM, JD wrote:
> I'm confused - are you using samba or sshfs?
>
> sshfs does NOT implement everything that a POSIX file system should have.
> Usually it is "good enough", but not always, especially with file locking, IME.
> Vboxsf also has a similar issue.
>
>
> On 06/11/2014 11:03 AM, Preston wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I have a remote samba machine that I connect to via SSHFS.  I created a
>> specific user ("indy") that will be used for this connection and that
>> user is in all the groups I believe it should be:
>>
>> indy at remote-srv-05:~$ groups
>> users ssh sambashare indy
>>
>> The issue I am having seems to be when Microsoft Office or Adobe
>> products create a .tmp file as they are saving.  When I am using these I
>> get a "disk is full" error.  I can see a "~WRD0003.tmp" file being
>> created on the server via my explorer window.  This (of course)
>> disappears when the file fails to save.
>>
>> I've created new text files directly on the server and edited/saved them
>> several times using simple text editors (notepad, Notepad++) and
>> LibreOffice (the temp file it creates works "correctly" I suppose).
>>
>> This server will be predominately used by our Macs with a few Windows
>> machines connecting on occasion.
>>
>> How are you setting up your smb.conf to allow Word/Photoshop/InDesign to
>> work correctly?
>>
>> Here is my smb.conf file:
>>
>> #======================= Global Settings =======================
>> [global]
>> workgroup = COOLKIDZ
>> server string = %h server
>> include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
>> dns proxy = no
>> log level = 2
>> syslog = 2
>> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>> max log size = 1000
>> syslog only = yes
>> panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
>> encrypt passwords = true
>> passdb backend = tdbsam
>> obey pam restrictions = yes
>> unix password sync = no
>> passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>> passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n
>> *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
>> pam password change = yes
>> socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY
>> guest account = nobody
>> load printers = no
>> disable spoolss = yes
>> printing = bsd
>> printcap name = /dev/null
>> unix extensions = yes
>> wide links = no
>> create mask = 0777
>> directory mask = 0777
>> use sendfile = yes
>> aio read size = 16384
>> aio write size = 16384
>> null passwords = no
>> local master = yes
>> time server = no
>> wins support = no
>>
>> #======================= Share Definitions =======================
>> [Server5]
>> comment = File Storage
>> path = /media/14dccf1f-2af9-4a7d-ad14-86536398b0a6/Server5/
>> guest ok = no
>> read only = no
>> browseable = yes
>> inherit acls = yes
>> inherit permissions = no
>> ea support = no
>> store dos attributes = no
>> printable = no
>> create mask = 0766
>> force create mode = 0766
>> directory mask = 0766
>> force directory mode = 0766
>> hide dot files = yes
>> valid users = "preston","indy",@"preston",@"indy"
>> invalid users =
>> read list =
>> write list = "preston","indy",@"preston",@"indy"
>>
>>
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