[Samba] Samba - winXP lookup

[John H Terpstra]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Gabriele Carioli wrote:

Gebriele,

Your smb.conf looks fine. Suggest that you use ethereal to capture traffic
between the mis-behaving workstation and the server and check out what is
happening over the wire. This could be a situation where there is no
traffic and we are dealing with misbehaviour on the XP machine itself.
Have you checked the Event Viewer on the XP machine to see what it is
reporting?

- John T.

> Hi!
>
> > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Jens Pettersson wrote:
>
> >> [...] from time to time I get a ~30 second lockup. During that
> >> time, the Samba shares are unresponsive from that computer (other
> >> computers work fine).
> >> I imagine this is probably an XP bug [...]
> >> Is there a solution to this or do we have to live with it...hopefully
> not ;)
>
> > I have seen this with some XP machines also.
>
> > Send me your smb.conf and I'll see what help can be brought to bare.
>
> I'm having the same problem as Jens.
>
> I'm running samba-2.2.7a-1 on a RedHat 6.2 box (kernel 2.2.22).
> I've fought a lot against my smb.conf to solve this problem, so
> maybe it's not a clean one, however here it is:
>
> [global]
>   workgroup = MACONDO
>   netbios name = SUPERPIPPO
>   server string = Samba v%v (Logon Server)
>   interfaces = eth0
>   log level = 1
>   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>   max log size = 50
>   mangle case = Yes
>   socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=16384 SO_SNDBUF=16384
> SO_KEEPALIVE
>
>   max xmit = 65535
>
>   password level = 0
>   encrypt passwords = Yes
>   unix password sync = yes
>   null passwords = Yes
>   username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
>   guest account = smbguest
>   add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s
> /bin/false -M %u
>
>   dns proxy = No
>   wins support = Yes
>   time server = Yes
>   print command = lpr -b -r -P%p %s
>   load printers = No
>
>   domain master = Yes
>   local master = Yes
>   preferred master = Yes
>   os level = 65
>   security = user
>   deadtime = 0
>   keepalive = 300
>
>   domain logons = Yes
>   logon drive = h:
>   logon path = \\%n\%u\.profile
>   logon home = \\%n\%u
>   logon script = logon.cmd
>
>   level2 oplocks = Yes
>   read raw = Yes
>   write raw = Yes
>   oplocks = Yes
>   getwd cache = Yes
>   wide links = no
>   hosts allow = 192.168.1.0/24 127.0.0.0/8
>
> [netlogon]
>   comment = Logon scripts and policies
>   path = /home/samba/netlogon
>   writeable = no
>   write list = bilo,root
>
> [profiles]
>   comment = Roaming profiles directory
>   path = /home/samba/profiles
>   writeable = Yes
>   create mask = 0600
>   directory mask = 0700
>
> [homes]
>   comment = Home Directories
>   writeable = Yes
>   browseable = Yes
>
>
> ...
>
>

-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org