[Samba] Re: share persistence problem

[Paul Trepanier]

While you may be onto something, I currently disagree as the samba logs 
show the details of what's happening...

[2003/05/29 08:05:11, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(59)
   unix_mode(Desktop.ini) inheriting from .
[2003/05/29 08:05:11, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(67)
   unix_mode(Desktop.ini) inherit mode 42775
[2003/05/29 08:05:11, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(59)
   unix_mode(Desktop.ini) inheriting from .
[2003/05/29 08:05:11, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(67)
   unix_mode(Desktop.ini) inherit mode 42775
[2003/05/29 08:05:11, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(636)
   sambaclient(111.222.333.444) connect to service home as user 
sambauser(uid=772, gid=10772) (pid 4803)
[2003/05/29 08:05:11, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(59)
   unix_mode(Desktop.ini) inheriting from .
[2003/05/29 08:05:11, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(67)
   unix_mode(Desktop.ini) inherit mode 42775
[2003/05/29 08:05:13, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(59)
   unix_mode(.) inheriting from .
[2003/05/29 08:05:13, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(67)
   unix_mode(.) inherit mode 42775
[2003/05/29 08:06:05, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(677)
   sambaclient(111.222.333.444) closed connection to service home

As you can see by the last log entry, samba blows the client off and 
closes the connection less than a minute after it was established.  All 
on it's own.

My users simply will not tolerate having to remap drives umpteen times a 
day as doing so to an actual MS windows share does not require constant 
remapping.  This behavior is unfortunately a showstopper and I would 
hate to loose the opportunity for samba to address our UNIX filesharing 
problems.

I've found slews of reports of this behavior on google, but all the 
proposed solutions appear to not provide an answer/resolution.  Nada @ 
samba.org & docs (from my perspective).

Thoughts?


John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2003, Paul Trepanier wrote:
> 
> 
>>After awhile, my connections from my PC to my samba server end up with a
>>red "X" in them (share disappeared) if I leave my explorer window open.
>>      If I click on these, they "wake up" and continue to function (and
>>the red X's go away).  If I close my explorer window (while the red X's
>>are there) and reopen it , they are gone.  An attempt to reestablish
>>these  dropped connections is immediately successful.
>>
>>This is obviously a connection persistence issue and I've tried setting
>>both keepalive= and SO_KEEPALIVE (individually, of course) to no avail.
>>
>>Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Your MS Windows client is the culprit - it is dropping idle connections as
> I recall. Also, you may find that there is a registry setting to turn that
> feature off.
> 
> - John T.
> 
> 
>>My installation is samba 2.2.8 running as a daemon (not inetd) on
>>Solaris 8 configured to use a WINS server and provide authentication via
>>a PDC (same host as WINS server).  I do have an lmhosts file in the
>>samba /lib directory with the PDC/WINS server address in it.
>>
>>My globals section;
>>
>>[global]
>>         workgroup = WORKGROUP
>>         netbios name = SAMBASERVER
>>         security = SERVER
>>         encrypt passwords = Yes
>>         password server = pdc
>>         lanman auth = No
>>         log level = 2
>>         log file = /usr/local/depot/samba-2.2.8/var/%m.log
>>         deadtime = 5
>>         max smbd processes = 5
>>         socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_KEEPALIVE
>>         load printers = No
>>         show add printer wizard = No
>>         preferred master = No
>>         local master = No
>>         domain master = No
>>         wins server = [IP address of WINS/PDC server]
>>         follow symlinks = No
>>
>>
>>
> 
>