NT Create & X responses and the CreateAction field

Ken Cross kcross at nssolutions.com
Fri Apr 18 11:25:59 GMT 2003


Richard:

You may have noticed that NetBench gets errors running against a Windows
box, too, if you use more than one engine per client.

FWIW, we tried to pursue this problem with the NetBench folk, and their
response was basically: more than one engine per client is not
supported.

Ken
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Ken Cross

Network Storage Solutions
Phone 865.675.4070 ext 31
kcross at nssolutions.com 

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> [mailto:samba-technical-bounces+kcross=nssolutions.com at lists.s
> amba.org] On Behalf Of Richard Sharpe
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 11:48 PM
> To: samba-technical at samba.org
> Subject: NT Create & X responses and the CreateAction field
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been looking into why NetBench will not run against Samba (or 
> NetApp) when you start more than one engine per client (in 
> this case I 
> started two clients).
> 
> It seems, and I have a trace, that Win2K does not encode the OpLock 
> granted bit in the CreateAction field even if the Extended 
> Responses bit 
> (0x10) is set in the CreateFlags field ...
> 
> Also, I have seen an action of 0xaa in one response, 0xac in 
> others, and 
> also 0xae in even others.
> 
> I will have a quick try to see if this is the cause of the 
> problems ...
> 
> Regards
> -----
> Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
> sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
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