[Samba] hanging smbd(s).....

Matt Lung matt.lung at midwest-tool.com
Wed Jan 18 16:13:19 GMT 2006


Christian,

Well the problem seems similar somewhat, and I'm willing to try it to 
get rid of this problem.  Hopefully it will work for us too.

Matt

Masopust, Christian wrote:

>Hi Matt,
>
>our server now runs fine without any problems since mid of december
>(with machine password timeout disabled).
>
>but our problem was not that samba stopped responding, the problem was
>that the whole system slowed down as there were hundreds of smbds running
>(smbd never stopped because of a deadlock in accessing secrets.tdb).
>
>christian
>
>
>
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>Christian,
>
>Have you seen any more problems with your SMBD(s) hanging after setting 
>your "machine password timeout = 0" ?? 
>
>We have been having a similar problem with the hanging smbd(s) and 
>eventually samba just stops responding.  Just curious if you have had 
>additional problems after making the change or if this fixed all your 
>problems.  It has been one week to the day that our server last did this 
>so I am hoping this will help us.  Thanks for the help!!
>
>
>Christian wrote:
>#################
>
>Hi Jerry,
>
>as i promised here is the current status information about my problem.
>
>seems that you're right....   after setting "machine password timeout = 0"
>the problem never arised again.
>
>thanks for your help,
>christian
>
>p.s.: if i can do anything to help you in diagnosing the problem, please send
>      me instructions :-)))
>
>#####################
>  
>

-- 
Matt Lung

Midwest Tool & Die, Corp.




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