[jcifs] RE: Davenport - Copy Operation Uses Many Ports?
Mike McDonald
Mike.McDonald at anywaregroup.com
Thu Jun 10 14:05:05 GMT 2004
It is HTTP traffic between the client and the Davenport Server. The
attached netstat shows the connections made by simply copying a Folder
containing 8 files from an SMB server to the client via Davenport
running on Windows. Interestingly enough, if I run Davenport on
Solaris, the connections stay in an ESTABLISHED state.
I took a look through a packet trace and the NTLM authentication
handshake is in fact happening for each operation. How can I force
Basic Authentication in Davenport? I set enableBasic=true and
insecureBasic=true, but still get authenticated via NTLM.
Also, I tried the jcifs0.9.2.jar, but Davenport does not appear to work
properly with it (setProperty errors?). I only looked briefly, so I may
just have a misconfiguration.
FYI: My client is IE6 on Windows XP (both fully patched).
Thanks,
Mike
Active Connections
Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP vm_amsdav:http anywarenetworks.com:1517 TIME_WAIT
TCP vm_amsdav:http anywarenetworks.com:1518 TIME_WAIT
TCP vm_amsdav:http anywarenetworks.com:1519 TIME_WAIT
TCP vm_amsdav:http anywarenetworks.com:1525 TIME_WAIT
TCP vm_amsdav:http anywarenetworks.com:1526 TIME_WAIT
TCP vm_amsdav:http anywarenetworks.com:1527 TIME_WAIT
TCP vm_amsdav:http anywarenetworks.com:1528 TIME_WAIT
TCP vm_amsdav:http anywarenetworks.com:1529 TIME_WAIT
TCP vm_amsdav:http anywarenetworks.com:1530 TIME_WAIT
TCP vm_amsdav:http anywarenetworks.com:1531 TIME_WAIT
TCP vm_amsdav:http anywarenetworks.com:1532 TIME_WAIT
TCP vm_amsdav:http anywarenetworks.com:1533 TIME_WAIT
TCP vm_amsdav:http anywarenetworks.com:1534 TIME_WAIT
TCP vm_amsdav:http anywarenetworks.com:1535 TIME_WAIT
TCP vm_amsdav:http anywarenetworks.com:1536 FIN_WAIT_2
-----Original Message-----
From: eglass1 at comcast.net [mailto:eglass1 at comcast.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 2:33 PM
To: Mike McDonald
Cc: jcifs at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Davenport - Copy Operation Uses Many Ports?
> Basically, I have a very simple problem. If I attempt to copy a
'Deep' or
> 'Wide' directory structure via Davenport, it appears to keep opening
> multiple ports for the copy operations. For example, I attempted to
copy a
> default Jetty install (jetty.mortbay.org) across the network and
noticed
> 800+ connections between my client and the Davenport server. I am
curious
> if there is a setting somewhere to instruct Davenport to open only x
number
> of connections, or to reuse open connections? Is there something else
I
> may have missed?
Is this HTTP traffic between the client and Davenport? Or CIFS between
Davenport and the SMB server? The latter should be happening over ~1
connection. The former would depend on the sequence of WebDAV
operations
the client chooses to make, and the manner in which it makes them.
Ideally, the client would keep the HTTP connection alive to the
Davenport
server, and run all the calls over that pipe. If NTLM authentication is
being
used, and the client isn't sending the session cookie with the request,
then
the NTLM handshake will have to be performed with every operation; this
would involve a teardown of the HTTP connection (which might account for
the
huge number of connections you're seeing).
Technically, I don't know that there's any reason the connection needs
to be
closed by the server before the handshake (with the initial
"WWW-Authenticate: NTLM"). IIS does this, and it may be required for
some/all versions of IE, so we do it too. IIS/IE use the physical
connection to
track the authenticated session, so that's why they do this; but we
don't have
that dependency (we use the session cookie instead). If you want to
experiment, you can see what happens if you remove all the:
response.setHeader("Connection", "close");
Another option would be to disable NTLM in Davenport and enable Basic
authentication; you could see if that affects anything.
Eric
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