[Samba] Lock ups?

[Shawn Henderson]

----I don't think it's network related as I have 100 meg full duplex locked
all the way through. Both PC's are plugged into a Cisco 2950 and I see no
itteruption of traffic between the two when a pause occurs.-----

I am having the same problem on occasion and I am getting wins errors in my
log... I see you have wins support in the config as I do . Can someone
explain the wins process as it pertains to samba .

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris" <samba at hal.kaos.gen.nz>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 3:20 AM
Subject: [Samba] Lock ups?


> Hi there. I'm reasonably new to Samba but quite experienced with Linux.
>
> The other day I decided to throw a file server together for my house. I
> put together a Linux box with 5 120 gig drives raid 5'd in a rack mount
> box and put it in the basement.
>
> It's running debian and Samba 3.0.2a-1. The Kernel is 2.4.26.
>
> I am then mounting the drive as a mapped network drive under a windows XP
> box that is my main PC.
>
> Initially all seemed good. I filled the raid and started using the PC. I
> am however getting what appear to be "lock ups" regularly when browsing
> the samba share I have created. I'll be browsing happy as larry with music
> also streaming off the share when my explorer window will lock up and the
> music will stop playing. Any attempt to open "My Computer" or any explorer
> window to access the share results in nothing. If I wait 10 seconds to 1
> min it suddenly comes right and everything pootles along again as normal.
>
> If I just stream 1 file off the server then it's fine for (the longest
> I've tried) up to 2 hours. But if I start browsing the shares or opening
> other shared files I get lock ups within 1-5 min. It's very frustrating
> when I'm trying to do multiple things at once.
>
> I ran ethereal on the windows end and when the pauses happen I see SMB
> messages flying round but they seem to be requests for the same bit over
> and over.. Usually as the pause ends I see a close request going from the
> XP box to the Linux server. I can provide ethereal captures if that would
> help.
>
> I am also SSHed into the server and it's not a drive pause as the drive
> and mounted dir are totally responsive under linux while the pause is in
> effect.
>
> I don't think it's network related as I have 100 meg full duplex locked
> all the way through. Both PC's are plugged into a Cisco 2950 and I see no
> itteruption of traffic between the two when a pause occurs.
>
> Below is my SMB conf.... any suggestions? My GF is going to kill me if her
> photo editing keeps locking up like this. :)
>
> ------
> [global]
> server string = %h server (Samba %v)
> netbios name = atari
> wins support = yes
> dns proxy = no
> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
> max log size = 1000
> syslog = 0
> panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
> encrypt passwords = true
> passdb backend = tdbsam guest
> obey pam restrictions = yes
> passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
> socket options =  TCP_NODELAY,  IPTOS_LOWDELAY, SO_KEEPALIVE,
SO_SNDBUF=8192, SO_RCVBUF=8192, SO_RCVBUF, SO_SNDBUF
> [shared]
>    comment = Storage
>    writable = yes
>    locking = yes
>    oplocks = True
>    create mask = 0700
>    directory mask = 0700
>    path = /raid-1/shared
>    public = yes
>
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