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Slow Samba

Symptoms

Clients may experience some sluggishness during read/write sessions to a network share.

Cause

In order to better facilitate our users of Windows Vista and Windows 7, we have upgraded Samba.

Microsoft has implemented new protocols for Windows Vista and Windows 7 for network communication. These protocols differ from the legacy protocols that were used in Windows XP and prior.
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This page applies to anyone receiving an lpr error under UNIX hosts similar to one listed below:

lpr: unable to print file: client-error-bad-request

Problem

The problem is that gutenberg was recently updated which houses all printers for the department. This provides newer software versions which provide newer features and functionality, however this also seems to have caused an error with older hosts.
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This page applies to anyone receiving any sort of error while trying to print, be it self-supported machine, or one of ours.

Problem

The problem is that gutenberg was recently updated which houses all printers for the department. This provides newer software versions which provide newer features and functionality, however this also seems to have caused an error with older hosts.
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The Problem:

You may receive the following error upon evoking Mathematica program:

xset: bad font path element (#38), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
xset: bad font path element (#38), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
assertion `GenericUnicodeFont != 0' at M…
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ROOT is a software package provided from CERN. ROOT is available for use on any PCN-maintained workstation. Use the following directions to access this particular package.

cd /package/root
#Look at the various versions available and determine which you would like to use

#Source the setup file appropriate to the version you want and shell you use
#setup.sh for bash
source 5.22_00/setup.sh

#setup.csh for csh variants
source 5.22_00/setup.csh

root
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