[Samba] 64-bit Windows advanced server 2003 hangs

Kyle Davenport Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com
Fri Mar 19 17:14:34 GMT 2004


I just had the unpleasant experience of crashing a production server
_twice_ when trying to access a file share.

The server is 64-bit Windows 2003 on an itanium3.  My box is RedHat Linux
8.0 with Samba 3.0.0-2.   Here's some messages from syslog:

Mar 19 09:13:58 hedron automount[1037]: attempting to mount entry
/dborg/POS
Mar 19 09:13:58 hedron mount.smbfs[23153]: [2004/03/19 09:13:58, 0]
client/smbmount.c:send_fs_socket(405)
Mar 19 09:13:59 hedron mount.smbfs[23153]:   mount.smbfs: entering daemon
mode for service \\dborg\POS, pid=23153
Mar 19 09:14:29 hedron kernel: SMB server not responding
Mar 19 09:14:29 hedron kernel: smb_get_length: recv error = 5
Mar 19 09:14:29 hedron kernel: smb_trans2_request: result=-5, setting
invalid
Mar 19 09:15:29 hedron kernel: smb_lookup: find //Store_257 failed,
error=-5
Mar 19 09:16:29 hedron kernel: smb_lookup: find //Store_257 failed,
error=-5
Mar 19 09:16:39 hedron kernel: smb_retry: caught signal
Mar 19 09:16:39 hedron kernel: smb_lookup: find //Store_261 failed,
error=-5

Normally, I automount my windows shares.  This has been working actually,
for about 3 months, without a problem.

Call it a testament to the reliability of 64-bit Win2003 that trying to do
a file listing with Samba blue-screens the server.   The first time I
thought it must just be a coincidence, but after a reboot, it did it again!
They have to constantly patch the window's boxes here for security problems
of course; this could be an early warning that M$ has changed something to
be incompatible with Samba.

Kyle





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