NMBD process crashing (King Andrew J)

[King Andrew J]

I can also confirm that we have TCPIP V5.4-15.  The issue appears to happen
at random times and I have noticed that the process seem to crash when the
I/O reaches quite a high level, but I don't have confirmed details.

Andrew King
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>On Behalf Of George Blum
>Sent: 01 March 2007 12:44 pm
>To: samba-vms at lists.samba.org
>Subject: NMBD process crashing (King Andrew J)
>
>If you do a product show product /full what does it show you 
>for TCPIP. We are running TCPIP 5.4-15 on an DS-10 and have no 
>problems.
>
>At 12:09 PM 3/1/2007 +0000, you wrote:
>>Message: 1
>>Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:08:03 -0000
>>From: King Andrew J <AJKING at mail.dstl.gov.uk>
>>Subject: NMBD process crashing
>>To: samba-vms at lists.samba.org
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>>Can anyone help/explain why the NMBD process on my VMS server is 
>>crashing, I will explain.
>>
>>VMS 7.3-2, with TCP 5.4 on Alpha ES47 7/1150 SAMBA 2.2.8
>>
>>I have had this issue ever since Samba was installed and have 
>>implemented a fix of Stopping and Restarting the whole of 
>Samba over a 
>>weekend to get round the issue.  I saw an article about the NMBD 
>>process crashing and the only answer at that time was as I 
>have already done.
>>
>>The situation appears to be that NMBD process starts up as 
>normal when 
>>the server is booted or rebooted and runs quite happy for a period of 
>>time.  The NMBD process then appears to crash and I am unable to find 
>>any files or logs that can help with diagnosing why.  I then manually 
>>start up the whole of Samba to get the NMBD process up and running.
>>
>>Questions:
>>Is/are there any options that can bee added to capture the details of 
>>the NMBD process if that is at fault.
>>Is there an issue with NMBD process crashing as explained and 
>what are 
>>the fixes.
>>What other diagnostic tools are there that can be used to monitor and 
>>report on Samba processes.
>>
>>Andrew King
>>Snet NT/VMS Systems Administrator (FRN)
>> > Dstl Business Systems, Service & Support Building A2, Room G053
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>> > E: mailto:ajking at dstl.gov.uk <mailto:ajking at dstl.gov.uk>
>> >
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