weird samba problem

[Martin Rusko]

Hi Sanjiv,
unfortunately I have also some hardware related network problems, so first of 
all I have to solve those problems (Error read socket data, Connection reset 
by peer, etc.). Clients have problem with accessing data on WinNTs, and 
also copying files between two windows 9x clients is buggy (sometimes it 
failed). So it seems to be, that there are shity cables/hubs/NICs whatever it 
is. I turned oplocks off on shares where there are really important data. On 
home dirs and one public directory oplocks are turned on (end oplock's 
problems seems to go away with 2.2.2 there), but those are not so often 
used. I can tell you more tomorrow (I haven't seen logs for maybe five days ;-
)).

But if you look at samba 2.2.2 changelog, some oplock related bugs should 
be fixed, so maybe Pupeno should try that version.

What really interest me is, how can I tune up samba to make it as less as 
possible sensitive to hardware related problems (with turned off oplocks), 
until those problems will be fixed. (Maybe some magic with "socket options", 
"max xmit", ...) With oplocks turned on (working, or not) and hardware 
problems I can be sure, that I will end up with corrupted dos databases. ;-((

So Sanjiv, stay tunned, more will come. ;-)

      mARTin

On 28 Jan 02, at 10:44, Sanjiv Bawa wrote:

> Pupeno,
> 
> Please try 2.2.2 and let the list know if it works or not. I could not get
> 2.2.2 to work without oplock problems. I would very much like a solution to
> this.
> 
> Martin, did your oplock problems go away with 2.2.2?
> 
> Thaanks.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Martin Rusko
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 3:55 AM
> To: Pupeno
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: weird samba problem
> 
> 
> Hi Pupeno,
> the quickiest hack what can help you is to upgrade your samba package to
> version 2.2.2 from Mandrake updates. Look at your favourite Mandrake
> mirror, find updates for 8.1 and do an upgrade.
> 
> Version 2.2.2 has some oplock's problem fixed. Also, try to turn off oplock
> support on shares, where you are exporting any dos databases. Oplock failures
> can lead into broken data, and that is very very bad. ;-(
> 
> I know, what I'm talking about, I have the same problems as you. ;-((
> 
>    Best regards...
> 
>         mARTin
> 
> > I'm having a very weird samba problem that I have never seen in my whole
> > life.
> > The problem seems to be when transfering binary files (dos binary
> > files).
> > We're running Samba 2.2.1a on Mandrake 8.1. Our clients are Windows >
> > 9x,
> > maybe
> > some Windows ME, they run a DOS application... sometimes the > >
> applications
> > run
> 
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> Martin Rusko
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> Slovak Technical University
> Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
> Department of Automation
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Martin Rusko
PhD student
Slovak Technical University
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Automation
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