[Samba] Fw: Samba and Windows XP, 30 second lockup

Boogerman boogerman at interar.com.ar
Wed Nov 13 00:35:01 GMT 2002


What I actually meant was any firewall, including XP's. Anyway, a solution
has ben proposed in this mailing list wich consisted in disabling webDAV.
I've done so but I won't be able to confirm that it works until some time
has elapsed, since it is a random issue...

Booogerman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel Kelly" <nkelly at citrusnetworks.net>
To: "'Boogerman'" <boogerman at interar.com.ar>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:44 PM
Subject: RE: [Samba] Fw: Samba and Windows XP, 30 second lockup


> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to clarify what Jeremy said then - he actually means the
built
> in XP firewalling, not a 3rd party one.  Just your answer made me think
you
> meant the latter.
>
> I had this same problem with an installation and one of the XP machines
had
> previoulsy been exposed on a direct connection to the internet.  XP
> automatically turns on its builtin firewall - you can see if it is enabled
> in the ethernet connection properties (also the icon has a tiny padlock on
> the data line).
>
> HTH
> Noel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boogerman [mailto:boogerman at interar.com.ar]
> Sent: 12 November 2002 16:45
> To: jra at dp.samba.org
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Fw: Samba and Windows XP, 30 second lockup
>
>
> No, I don't have any samba printers, neither I do have a firewall in the
XP
> machine.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jra at dp.samba.org>
> To: "Boogerman" <boogerman at interar.com.ar>
> Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 1:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Fw: Samba and Windows XP, 30 second lockup
>
>
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:48:01AM -0300, Boogerman wrote:
> > > Hi again,
> > >
> > > I posted this message some time ago in the list, however nobody
replied
> yet.
> > > I find this kinda weird because the problem happens with both my XP
> > > computers, so I am pretty sure there must be at least a couple of guys
> out
> > > there with the same problem... Basically the problem is that when
using
> > > Samba shares from XP from time to time I experience a ~30 second
lockup
> of
> > > the shares. This doesn't happen in other windows versions. Anyone is
> having
> > > the same issue and/or knows how to solve it?
> >
> > Are you sharing printers from Samba ? On print open, XP makes a
> > request to monitor a printer for change notify which causes
> > Samba to do a reverse connection back to the client, currently
> > with 30 second timeout (which makes me suspicious). Do you have
> > firewall settings on the XP boxes that would prevent reverse
> > connections to ports 445 or 139 ?
> >
> > Jeremy.
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