[Samba] 64-bit Windows advanced server 2003 hangs

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Mar 19 18:21:50 GMT 2004


On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 11:14:34AM -0600, Kyle Davenport wrote:
> 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.

Can you please get an ethereal capture trace of this problem and
send it to security at samba.org. We need to be able to produce a binary
using the smbclient code that can reproduce this so we can send it to
Microsoft and get them to fix it.

Thanks,

	Jeremy.


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