[Samba] long filename issues

[Nathan Vidican]

We're still getting a lot of locked smbd processes, processes climbing to 98% 
or more usage and becoming un-responsive and thereby locking the particular 
user they're attached to from accessing the file.

It seems more and more so, that the longer the combined path and file name 
are, the more likely the end user is to get locked out. Aside from that, the 
issue has yet to form a pattern we've been able to dicifer, and even still it 
only happens at apparently random intervals to only a small number of users.

So I was curious, are there any issues regarding filename/pathname 
limitations? ie: 256 chars max filename, issues with say > 4 spaces in a 
filename, etc. Trying to narrow this down somehow and see what we can figure 
out, else we're just kinda banking on the next stable release to hopefully 
fix this issue.

We're running Samba-3.0.13 with a patch as supplied by (Jerry or Jeremy, sorry 
haven't got the email to see whom it was guys). The patch was to solve the 
locking issue with excel, and though it did help, it has not stopped the 
lockups all together. We're still getting on average about 10-15 a day.

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Nathan Vidican
nvidican at wmptl.com
Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd.
http://www.wmptl.com/