[Samba] IE 5.01, Shell Folders, Windows 2000 and Samba 2.2.3a

[Darrel Clute]

Why are you storing histories and cookies to a network drive in the first
place????

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   Darrel Clute, CCNA
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   Acumen Technology Group
   Clute Technologies
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Pace" <Douglas.Pace at NAU.EDU>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 6:54 PM
Subject: [Samba] IE 5.01, Shell Folders, Windows 2000 and Samba 2.2.3a


> Recently at my University we upgraded our Samba servers from 2.2.0 to
> 2.2.3a.  After the upgrade, one of the server's(Solaris 2.6) loads
> increased dramatically. From an average load of 2 to sometimes as high as
> 20 during heavy use. This appeared to be almost exclusively from the Samba
> processes as a handful of those processes took up approx 5% of the CPU
> EACH.  Doing a truss on these processes revealed that it was calling
stat64
> and chmod continuously on Windows shell folders for History and
> Cookies.  These processes only appeared when the end user was using
> IE(further testing narrowed this down to only 5.01).  Obviously our shell
> folders are pointed to a network mapped drive from the Samba server.
>
> After dealing with this for a day, we attempted to rollback to 2.2.0.
This
> still didn't solve our problems and trussing the processes showed similar
> behavior(stat64 and chmod on the History and Cookies folder). After
> spending some time trying to find a solution to this problem, we
discovered
> deleting the Cookies and History folders on each of the user's samba
mounts
> resulted in fixing the problem.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this type of behavior, and if so were you able
> to fix it any other way? Are there any fixes for this type of thing?
Thanks
> and hopefully I'm not being repetitive.
>
> Not sure what information is helpful, but here we go.
> Server - E450 running Solaris 2.6 with approx 150-200 clients at any
> time(during heavy loads). Running only as a file server(no DC).
> Workstations - primarily Windows 2000 with IE 5.01(there are others, but
> this is the majority of the clients).
>
> Again thanks for all the great work and any help you can possibly give
with
> this problem.
>
>
> Douglas Pace
> Douglas.Pace at nau.edu
> 928-523-1655
> Systems Programmer, NAU
>
>
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