dave crashes my nmbd

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Jan 8 11:43:48 GMT 2002


On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:31:31AM +0100, Antonio Galea wrote:
> Hi all, I've found a few references on a similar problem back in May 2001, but
> no definitive answer; so I'm posting this, hoping it may help someone with
> better insights into the question to solve the problem.
> 
> I'm using samba-2.2.0-20010417 (from the redhat srpm on samba download site);
> the Dave client was originally a 2.5.2, but I've recently upgraded to a 3.1
> with no better luck. The problem is simple: whenever the Dave client starts, it
> crashes my nmbd daemon. Apparently, Dave is sending some unexpected/uncorrect
> packets (with a wrong length parameter, from what I get from the debug logs).
> 
> After a few attempts, I've found out that no crash happens if Samba is not the
> local master browser... I can live with it, but sincerely it's quite annoying.
> Today I tried a shot in the dark: I've raised the OS level from 65 to 128...
> and -incredibly- it seems to work.
> 
> Well, fair enough... but I'd love to get a grip on what's really going on
> behind all this... anybody has an answer?

Yes, I remember seeing this at the last CIFS interop in Washinton.

We fixed it in 2.2 CVS and HEAD (maybe in 2.2.2, also, look at
the README).

Jeremy.




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