[jcifs] deadlock while creating SmbFile

[Michael B. Allen]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:40:26 +0400
mamoNT <mamont at pisem.net> wrote:

> Hello Michael,
> 
> Tuesday, September 24, 2002, 1:54:17 AM, you wrote:
> 
> AMBR> A problem with session establishment to Win2K was identified. It's a bug in Win2K.
> AMBR> I'm not sure if I patched this in 0.7.0b3. Keep an eye out for 0.6.6. Or look through
> AMBR> the mailing list archives for the patch. I think I made that information available. In
> AMBR> fact there's a link in there to a jar that works. Try it.
> 
> Nevertheless sometimes it hangs :((
> Not only on w2k but also at winXP
> :(

Well  then  that's  not  the  problem.  Check  to  make sure it's not a SYN
timeout.  When  a socket makes a connect to a server it sends a SYN packet.
If the server does not respond to this because of a firewall or the machine
was  turned  off  the  socket will get no response to this and it will take
serveral  minutes  before  you get a "No route to host" message. IOW let it
hang  there  with -Dlog=ALL on and wait 10 minutes to make sure it's really
"hung".  I am not aware of any deadlock in jCIFS and I have never seen such
a thing happen in at least the 0.6 series so I am very suspicious. 

Otherwise,  please write a minimal program that illustrates the problem and
get  a  -Dlog=ALL, a packet trace using Ethereal or Netmon or whatever. The
more  information  about  where it's hanging the better. Also tell me about
your environment; what platform, what VM, etc.

Send any traces to me directly.

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