[Samba] Samba in a Win2000 / NT Enterprise

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 07:10:13PM -0000, Noel Kelly (VPN) wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> Are you running a 2.4 kernel ?  I am have had numerous problems with
> winbindd dying under 2.2.20.  Also, on Friday I had two separate incidents
> of unkillable smbd processes left on the our Samba 2.2.3a servers after the
> Win2000 clients crashed.  These are nasty as they prevent the disk being
> unmounted and one is left with no option but to reboot and let fsck do its
> stuff on remount.  Having to reboot both our main servers on Friday
> afternoon in these circumstances is not impressing the hoi poloi.
> 
> I was rather hoping these unkillables had gone away with 2.2.3a as they were
> so constant in 2.2.2 that they almost scuttled the whole Samba migration.
> Perhaps the 2.4 kernel's improved file system management might smooth these
> over.

Unkillable processes are a *kernel* problem, not a Samba one.

Nothing we do should affect the kernel this badly - my only
guess would be kernel oplock code - try turning this option
off and see if it makes the problem go away.

Jeremy.