[Samba] Samba possibly causing windows 2000 to crash?

[Cameron Murdoch]

I am using the following:

Samba 2.2.8a (from FreeBSD ports)
FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p10

Samba is configured as a member of a Windows 2000 domain.

Generally everything seems to be working as expected.  Occasionally the following gets logged to the console:

[2003/04/14 20:25:19, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(599)
  zulu (192.168.1.161) Can't change directory to /data/path (No such file or directory)
[2003/04/14 23:22:50, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_data(436)
  read_data: read failure for 26184. Error = Connection reset by peer

But the clients do not seem affected by this.

However, when I try to backup our exchange 2000 database onto the Samba server, using ntbackup.exe, the exchange server always crashes.  We are talking blue screen of death here! 

The Exchange server is running on Windows 2000 server with service pack 3 and exchange service pack 3.

When the server crashes and begins to dump memory the following is displayed: (hand transcribed so not word for word)

STOP 0x0000001E (0x0000005, 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000)
KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

The machine then reboots, but no further error messages are displayed.

The exchange database is almost 7Gb but it never get past approx 4.5Gb as the crash seems to always happen on the second file which I think is priv.stm.
The same backup operation works perfectly when backing up up elsewhere, including onto a old(ish) Snap Server (very slow!), which from what I have been able to tell runs an embedded linux OS and possibly samba!

The samba shares are also shared over nfs but these backups are performed at weekends when the network is completely quiet.

Also of note, the shares are mounted on mirrored drives using Vinum for software mirroring.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Smb.conf is below.

Cameron Murdoch

#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]

; Basic
workgroup = BPR
server string = Samba Server
hosts allow = 10.1.10.  192.168.1. 127.
log file = /var/log/log.%m
max log size = 50

; Security
security = domain
encrypt passwords = yes
password server = *


socket options = TCP_NODELAY
dns proxy = no


#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
[archives]
   path=/data/archives
   comment = archives
   browseable = yes
   writable = yes
   create mask = 0664
   directory mask = 0775

[backup]
   path = /data/backup
   browseable = yes
   writable = yes
   create mask = 0664
   directory mask = 0775

[install]
   path = /data/install
   browseable = yes
   writable = yes
   create mask = 0664
   directory mask = 0775

[www]
   path = /data/www
   browseable = yes
   writable = yes
   create mask = 0664
   directory mask = 0775