[Fwd: Re: [Samba] Frequent crashes - drives me nuts .....]

[Peter Eckhardt]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Samba] Frequent crashes - drives me nuts .....
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:49:23 +0200
From: Peter Eckhardt <peter at dadi-linux.de>
To: Wolfram Quester <wquester at mittelerde.physik.uni-konstanz.de>
References: <3F3C93A7.6020502 at dadi-linux.de> <20030815123417.GA16807 at pippin>

Wolfram Quester wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> 
>>Might it be possible that a windows box is sending bad packets which 
>>make samba die ? We have a suspicion that samba always dies when a 
>>certain Win 98 box logs in to the Workgroup.
>>
>>It's strange that the system runs rock solid during the day and always
>>dies in the morning.
> 
> 
> To me this looks like a cron-job trying to restart samba, cleaning /tmp
> or /var/run or ...


unfortunately not ....

> 
> Perhaps SuSE wants to use inetd, but you want to start/stop samba via 
> an init-script...?
>

nope. it's started via an init script. i tried running via xinetd also.
i forgot to mention that. in the beginning i suspected it's a problem
with nmbd only. i configured nmbd to start from xinetd. that worked.
i could kill nmbd and it always came back up without problems. except
... in the morning, nmbd did not die but simply did not react anymore.
After i killed it smbd died. After both were restarted things worked ok
until the next morning.

> Does the Win 98 box run an at-job at a certain time?
> 

nope. it's just trying to process a login script. But usually it can
not locate the PDC because nmbd is dead .... only in the morning of
course. No way to reproduce the problem during the day.

> regards,
> 
> Wolfi
> 

Thanks a lot

Peter

-- 

dadi-linux                       www.dadi-linux.de

Peter Eckhardt                   Fon: +49 6071 951256
Weberstr. 36B                    Fax: +49 6071 951257
64846 Groß-Zimmern               peter.eckhardt at dadi-linux.de


-- 

dadi-linux                       www.dadi-linux.de

Peter Eckhardt                   Fon: +49 6071 951256
Weberstr. 36B                    Fax: +49 6071 951257
64846 Groß-Zimmern               peter.eckhardt at dadi-linux.de