[Samba] Samba Hang.

[Gavin Button]

Thankyou for your answer,

The kernal version is 2.4.7-10, I will try upgrading this as you suggest.

Regards,

Gavin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Urban Widmark [mailto:urban at teststation.com]
> Sent: 20 March 2002 12:11
> To: Gavin Button
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba Hang.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Gavin Button wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am running RedHat Linux v7.2, which comes with samba 
> client 2.2.1a-4 and
> 
> Kernel version?
> 
> First try upgrading to the latest RH errata kernel. If that 
> doesn't work
> then try 2.4.17 (not .18) or 2.4.19-pre.
> 
> > samba-common 2.2.1a-4. I have setup a samba mount to a 
> Windows NT server
> > v4.0 via the fstab. Initially the mount seems to work ok, I 
> can view files
> > and copy small files to it. But when I do anyting which 
> involves copying a
> > larger volume of data to the mount point, the Linux machine 
> freezes (i.e.
> > will not accept anymore input). I have tried upgrading 
> tothe latest version
> > on the samba website, samba-2.2.3a20020206, but the problem 
> still persists.
> 
> Samba is not causing the freeze (and by freeze I assume you mean that
> nothing happens, even if not related to the copy operation).
> 
> smbmount is only a mount and connect tool. It does not do any 
> work when
> files are listed, copied, etc, all of that is smbfs.
> 
> /Urban
>