6s Delay when accessing share

[Richard Sharpe]

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Christoph Kaegi wrote:

> On 2002.05.07 04:46, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > 
> > What version of Samba? Have you made any mods to Samba?
> 
> 2.2.4. No mods.

OK ...
 
> Configured with 
> 
>   # ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-quotas --with-msdfs --with-included-popt --with-acl-support

OK ...

> > 
> > The trace seems to show that your client is trying to access 
> > \private\desktop.ini, which fails in wierd ways (STATUS_INVALID_HANDLE), 
> > even though the file was opened successfully.
> 
> Well, this is actually another problem I introduced (I believe) by having 
> 'nt acl support = no' on the homes share.
> 
> I corrected this and uploaded a new logfile/trace/smb.conf
> to www.zhwin.ch/~kgc

I will pull this down tomorrow and look at it.

> > 
> > The client then tries to do a bunch of RPCs, all of which fail trying to 
> > bind to the RPC operation with the same status.
> 
> This is the actual problem, causing the delay of 6 to 10 seconds.
> 
> I tried the same with a Windows 2000 client. I think there were the
> same problems, but the client didn't try that long, so the delay
> wasn't as annoying.

Hmmm, do you have a trace of that as well? Comparisons are good :-)

> > 
> > What does the log.$client or log.smbd show with respect to these? It tries 
> > to bind to the pipe \srvsvc and fails with the same response all the way 
> > to the end of the trace. ...
> > 
> 
> log.smbd doesn't contain anything recent or interesting and

OK, Thought as much, because most useful data goes in

> log.$client: where is this file?

log.$(client-name), ie log.fred, where fred is the client name (tied to 
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m) ...

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe at ns.aus.com, rsharpe at samba.org, 
sharpe at ethereal.com