large quantity of fsa*.tmp files

[Scott Moomaw]

Here's a little more info on the problem.  It seems to be related to a
deployment of Command Antivirus 4.62 for Win2K.  I don't think that this
is just a coincidence because the problems began last night after the
antivirus software installation, and the problems affected different
clients and differents samba servers.  Different applications are
generating tmp filenames with different file prefixes.  We were able to
work around the problem by adding "oplocks = no" to the smb.conf of both
servers.  It appears that a file is created, closed, and createX then
fails with a file exists message.

Scott

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Joe Meslovich wrote:

> 	This morning we have run into a problem where we are getting
> thousands upon thousands of tmp files beginning with the letters fsa when
> users tried to save files in any of the Microsoft Office products. This
> occured on both a samba 2.0.6 system and a 2.2.1a (cvs Sept 6th). Below is
> an fragment of a log file from the 2.0.6 system. I do not have a log from
> the 2.2.1a system at this time. Does this problem ring a bell with anyone?
>
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(615)
>   Transaction 48458 of length 128
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(448)
>   switch message SMBntcreateX (pid 12858)
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 3] lib/doscalls.c:dos_ChDir(336)
>   dos_ChDir to /
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 3] lib/doscalls.c:dos_ChDir(336)
>   dos_ChDir to /export/admin
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 3] lib/util.c:unix_clean_name(608)
>   unix_clean_name [/president/ehylton/teefall01/fsa2C1E.tmp]
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 3] lib/util.c:unix_clean_name(608)
>   unix_clean_name [president/ehylton/teefall01/fsa2C1E.tmp]
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(138)
>   error packet at line 840 cmd=162 (SMBntcreateX) eclass=1 ecode=80
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(143)
>   error string = File exists
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(615)
>   Transaction 48459 of length 128
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(448)
>   switch message SMBntcreateX (pid 12858)
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 4] smbd/uid.c:become_user(181)
>   Skipping become_user - already user
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 3] lib/util.c:unix_clean_name(608)
>   unix_clean_name [/president/ehylton/teefall01/fsa2C1F.tmp]
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 3] lib/util.c:unix_clean_name(608)
>   unix_clean_name [president/ehylton/teefall01/fsa2C1F.tmp]
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 4] smbd/open.c:open_file_shared(988)
>   calling open_file with flags=0x0 flags2=0x500 mode=0777
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(583)
>   jclinedi opened file president/ehylton/teefall01/fsa2C1F.tmp read=Yes
> write=No
>  (numopen=2)
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 3] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_set_share_mode(456)
>   set_share_mode: Created share record for
> president/ehylton/teefall01/fsa2C1F.t
> mp (dev 17001c0 inode 71018)
> [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 3] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_set_share_mode(495)
>   set_share_mode: Created share entry for
> president/ehylton/teefall01/fsa2C1F.tm
> p with mode 0x20 pid=12858
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Joe Meslovich						joe at bridgewater.edu
> Associate Network/Systems Engineer	                College Box 499
> Tel: (540) 828 - 5343
>
>
>
>


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