[jcifs] Concurrency with NTLM and servlets (and static method s?)

[Allen, Michael B (RSCH)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	dircha at bethel.edu [SMTP:dircha at bethel.edu]
> 
> > Any comments? Am I seeing problems where there are none? I don't know enough
> > about
> > the internals of the SMB protocol to be sure of all the interactions
> > between
> > SmbTransport and SmbSession. 
> >     
> > 
> >   - Frode
> >   
> >   
> > 
> 
> I don't know very much about the SMB protocol, and do not at the moment have the
> tools setup to investigate if I did, but ocassionally jcifs will stop responding
> when attempting to query a host that is not available at the time. I've tried
> leaving it go for 30 minutes to see whether it will time out, but it does not.
> I'll see if I can't setup an environment to provide you all with a meaningful
> description of this problem (as this is probably useless), but I thought it may
> be relevant to the discussion of this potential problem.
> 
> --Chad Dirks
> 
	Perhaps the name service deadlock described in the news bullets for Mon Nov 4, 2002
	and Wed Nov 6, 2002 might apply to your issue? IOW what version of jCIFS are you using?