Originally posted by: Jaqui

Any chance of getting a Samba download that is enabled for GPFS/Spectrum Scale?  I know it is supported in 4.1.1 but can't find an RPM or binary for it

Thanks

Jaqui

Originally posted by: sanket

As far as I know Samba to enable GPFS it needs CTDB support and . 

The Samba on AIX toolbox does not have CTDB support.

You can find Samba for AIX @ www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/alpha.html

Originally posted by: Jaqui

Thanks.  I found the samba.  My question was asking when/if IBM would provide SAMBA with CTDB/GPFS support

Jaqui

Originally posted by: AyappanP

We will study the feasibility and try to provide GPFS support.

Originally posted by: AndreasPaulat

The Samba version 4.5.7-1 on AIX-Toolbox is not fixing the remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2017-7494 (Remote code execution from a writable share).

When is a Samba version available which support CTDB and fixing CVE-2017-7494?

Thanks and regards

Andreas

Originally posted by: AyappanP

Samba-4.6.4 is available in AIX Toolbox. It's a security release to fix the vulnerability. https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2017-7494.html

And about CTDB, work is already in progress to provide Samba with CTDB and ADS(Active Directory services) support. Soon it will be available in AIX Toolbox

Originally posted by: knhavior

Do you have an ETA on the CTDB/ADS/GPFS support?

Originally posted by: AndreasPaulat

If you mean Event Tracking & Administration with ETA, no I don't have.

Originally posted by: AyappanP

Most probably you will see newer Samba rpms next week. It will be having ADS + CTDB + GPFS support. Active Directory Domain controller support will be considered in the next future release. Another thing to note here is IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) Cluster Export Services is limited to Linux and not supported in AIX. 

Originally posted by: AndreasPaulat

Are there problems with the completion of the new version of Samba with ADS + CTDB + GPFS support? We wait longingly for it.

Thanks in advance

Andreas

Originally posted by: AyappanP

We found some issues while loading the vfs gpfs module in Samba. We are working on that right now. 

Originally posted by: Jaqui

Any idea of a timeframe for this?  We are about to start a gpfs trial and need this component

Thanks

Jaqui

Originally posted by: AyappanP

The Package is ready. We will upload the rpms tomorrow. So you should be able to access tomorrow.

Originally posted by: Jaqui

Any idea when they will be there?  I just checked and I still only see 464.  The webpage does not show upload dates which would be really useful

Thanks

Jaqui

Originally posted by: AyappanP

The new rpms tagged 4.6.4-2 were uploaded yesterday. You can check it out in the ftp site --> ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/samba/ 

The AIX Toolbox html site will take sometime to get updated.

Originally posted by: knhavior

I understand. Thank you for the update. We look forward to Samba rpms next week.

Originally posted by: AndreasPaulat

samba-4.6.4-2 is now available in AIX Toolbox

Regards,

Andreas

Originally posted by: AndreasPaulat

And it needs python v2.7.12-2 but this version isn't working together with yum.

If I execute a yum command I get the following error. This error I don't get with python v2.7.10-1. So what can I do?

 yum list
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/opt/freeware/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 288, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/opt/freeware/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 40, in main
    yum.misc.setup_locale(override_time=True)
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/misc.py", line 996, in setup_locale
    sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter(locale.getpreferredencoding())(sys.stdout)
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 1009, in getwriter
    return lookup(encoding).streamwriter
TypeError: lookup() argument 1 must be string, not None

Regards,

Andreas

Originally posted by: AyappanP

Yum works with python v2.7.12-2 also. I don't know what went wrong in your system. 

Originally posted by: AndreasPaulat

I have re-installed gettext-0.19.7-1.ppc and yum is working again.

Regards,

Andreas

Originally posted by: knhavior

Anyone having an issue with authentication to AD? I tried testing winbindd by issuing command wbinfo -p and get Ping to winbindd failed
could not ping winbindd! Any suggestions?

Thanks,

knhavior

Originally posted by: AyappanP

Make sure winbindd daemon is running. Check the winbindd logs for more details. 

Originally posted by: knhavior

I was able to resolve the issue. We are integrating with Centrify and I specified the wrong winbind socket path. Thanks for your response.

knhavior

Originally posted by: AndreasPaulat

I have successfully installed Samba 4.6.4-2 with CTDB support on AIX 7.1 TL4 SP4. But now I have a problem with a too long lock time of files after changing the content and closing afterwards. If I want to open the file after changing the content and closing it afterwards, it is locked for a long time and I can't open it. Is this a bug or is there a parameter for the smb.conf to decrease the wait time after changing a file?

Best regards,

Andreas

Originally posted by: AyappanP

Checkout this forum discussion. It may answer your question. 

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=717b80cf-ae3e-49bb-9ea7-ff0c6b426c49

Originally posted by: Jaqui

So I had a fully working smb.conf with our earlier version of samba - because of the AD client (PNIS - used to be likewise) we use we set it to security = server which is now deprecated.

When I bring samba up at this new version I get a core dump - if I go back to pre 4.5 then I am fine but that does not help me with the AD and GPFS integration.

If I change it to security=ads I can't authenticate

Is anyone else seeing this?  Any ideas?

Thanks

Originally posted by: AyappanP

Can you be more specific ? 

You are saying about getting core dump. What you are trying and when you are getting it ?

"If i change it to security=ads I can't authenticate" Which authentication fails in what scenario ?

Make sure you link /opt/freeware/lib/WINBIND.so into /usr/lib/security. The rpm won't do it for you. 

# ls -l /usr/lib/security/WINBIND
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 28 Oct  9 15:59 /usr/lib/security/WINBIND -> /opt/freeware/lib/WINBIND.so

followed by these entries

In /usr/lib/security/methods.cfg

WINBIND:
        program = /usr/lib/security/WINBIND

In /etc/security/user

under default

SYSTEM = "WINBIND"

registry = WINBIND

More info is required 

Originally posted by: AndreasPaulat

Hello,

I have a not nice behaviour after changing an i. e. text file with notepad over a mapped Samba share. After the text file has been modified and closed, it is locked for a certain period of time for reopening. How to shorten this time so that you can immediately open the text file again.

A second problem is the changing of a text file with WordPad under Windows 10. The text file is corrupt after reopening amd after the locking period has expired. Some characters are missing in the file. But if you wait even longer, these characters are completely there again.

Many thanks in advance and best regards

Andreas

Originally posted by: Jaqui

Trying to install samba 464 with ctdb on our AIX 7.2.2 system (7200-02-02-1810) - have installed it on multiple systems at the same level with no issues.  This image is not installing - it is choking on the yum install as follows - if anyone has any suggestions that would be awesome.  There is plenty of disk space free.

Pre-installation Failure/Warning Summary
----------------------------------------
Name                      Level           Pre-installation Failure/Warning
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rpm.rte                   4.13.0.3        Already installed

Extracting yum_bundle.tar ...
x ca-certificates-2016.10.7-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm, 214726 bytes, 420 media blocks.
x curl-7.52.1-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm, 533288 bytes, 1042 media blocks.
x db-4.8.24-3.aix6.1.ppc.rpm, 2897799 bytes, 5660 media blocks.
x gdbm-1.8.3-5.aix5.2.ppc.rpm, 56991 bytes, 112 media blocks.
x gettext-0.19.7-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm, 4036762 bytes, 7885 media blocks.
x glib2-2.14.6-2.aix5.2.ppc.rpm, 1686134 bytes, 3294 media blocks.
x pysqlite-1.1.7-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm, 51749 bytes, 102 media blocks.
x python-2.7.10-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm, 23333701 bytes, 45574 media blocks.
x python-devel-2.7.10-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm, 15366474 bytes, 30013 media blocks.
x python-iniparse-0.4-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm, 37912 bytes, 75 media blocks.
x python-pycurl-7.19.3-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm, 162093 bytes, 317 media blocks.
x python-tools-2.7.10-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm, 830446 bytes, 1622 media blocks.
x python-urlgrabber-3.10.1-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm, 158584 bytes, 310 media blocks.
x readline-6.1-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm, 489547 bytes, 957 media blocks.
x sqlite-3.15.2-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm, 3570302 bytes, 6974 media blocks.
x yum-3.4.3-5.aix6.1.noarch.rpm, 1380725 bytes, 2697 media blocks.
x yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm, 62283 bytes, 122 media blocks.

Checking whether any of the rpms from yum_bundle are already installed ...

ca-certificates-2016.10.7-2 will be installed ...
curl-7.52.1-1 will be installed ...
db-4.8.24-3 will be installed ...
gdbm-1.8.3-5 will be installed ...
Package gettext-0.19.7-1 is already installed
Package glib2-2.14.6-2 is already installed
pysqlite-1.1.7-2 will be installed ...
python-2.7.10-1 will be installed ...
python-devel-2.7.10-1 will be installed ...
python-iniparse-0.4-1 will be installed ...
python-pycurl-7.19.3-1 will be installed ...
python-tools-2.7.10-1 will be installed ...
python-urlgrabber-3.10.1-1 will be installed ...
readline-6.1-2 will be installed ...
sqlite-3.15.2-1 will be installed ...
yum-3.4.3-5 will be installed ...
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-2 will be installed ...

Installing the packages...

Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
        file /opt/freeware/64/lib from install of readline-6.1-2.ppc conflicts with file from package libjpeg-6b-6.ppc
        file /opt/freeware/64 from install of readline-6.1-2.ppc conflicts with file from package libjpeg-6b-6.ppc
        file /opt/freeware/64 from install of readline-6.1-2.ppc conflicts with file from package freetype-1.3.1-9.ppc
        file /opt/freeware/64/lib from install of readline-6.1-2.ppc conflicts with file from package freetype-1.3.1-9.ppc
        file /opt/freeware/64/lib from install of gdbm-1.8.3-5.ppc conflicts with file from package libjpeg-6b-6.ppc
        file /opt/freeware/64 from install of gdbm-1.8.3-5.ppc conflicts with file from package libjpeg-6b-6.ppc
        file /opt/freeware/64 from install of gdbm-1.8.3-5.ppc conflicts with file from package freetype-1.3.1-9.ppc
        file /opt/freeware/64/lib from install of gdbm-1.8.3-5.ppc conflicts with file from package freetype-1.3.1-9.ppc

Yum installation failed.
If the failure was due to a space issue, increase the size of /opt and re-run yum.sh
or install the downloaded packages from /tmp/yum-20180526140842 manually.
Another reason for failure could be mixing of Toolbox packages and packages from other sources.

Originally posted by: Nitish Mishra

Hi Jaqui !

So, this restriction of directory conflict is coming from the rpm newer version that is 4. RPM-4 is a bit more strict than RPM-3. We have already recognized this issue with some of the packages and we are working on it to resolve.

Some of the packages are already fixed and uploaded and we are working on others.

Looking into your issue, you can, for now, use --force option as a work around. Just go to "/tmp/yum-20180526140842" directory and give the following command:

rpm -ivh *.rpm --force

This will install everything and nothing will be broken.

Optional: After installing, one thing you can do is, update libjpeg from this location: ftp://ausgsa.ibm.com/projects/a/aixtoolbox/toolbox/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/libjpeg/libjpeg-6b-7.aix6.1.ppc.rpm

using rpm -Uvh libjpeg-6b-7.aix6.1.ppc.rpm command.

This will update your libjpeg to 6b-7 version, which is fixed for above issue. This will resolve half of your error (which is coming from libjpeg), you have pasted above.

Thanks