[Samba] CIFS Server 2.2j Pb with locking : No locks available

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:14:05PM +0200, Bernard Sagnol wrote:
> I 've installed Samba on my Hp-Ux station and can access the files with
> my Windows clients (a hundred client)...but one hour or more later i
> face a problem :
> Actual user : oK.
> New access : Ko.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Error message in the client logfile
> 
> 2004/08/23 14:15:39, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:(531)
>   tdb(/var/opt/samba/locks/connections.tdb): tdb_lock failed on list 91
> ltype=2
> (No locks available)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Environnment
> HP Product :  HP CIFS Server 2.2j downloaded from Hp web site.
> 
> B8725AA               A.01.11.02     HP CIFS Server
> on HP-UX 11.00

You need to increase the number of locks available in the kernel. It's
an HPUX kernal tuning parameter (when, oh when will they fix this :-).

Jeremy.