[Samba] 3.0.22-solaris10 - Please help !

[Andrea Battaglia]

Hi Pierre,

I don't know about the 'set socket option' issue, but the broken pipe,
write failure and client locking all look familiar to me.  I posted a
message about them a couple of days ago.  In my case, it was a problem
with my firewall settings - in particular, using the 'established'
option on an ipfw rule caused some packets from the client to be
rejected at port 445.

Here's my original message for reference...

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Over the last few weeks I've had problems using Samba on a FreeBSD.
Windows XP clients (that's all I have) would experience intermittent
long delays (lockups, freezing) when accessing the samba shares using
Windows Explorer or any other applications.  This occurred both directly
when browsing the network neighborhood, and when accessing the share
through a letter drive mapping.
 
Here's a snippet of my log file showing the smbd errors:
 
Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar smbd[544]: [2006/06/13 17:41:04, 0]
lib/util_sock.c:read_data(529)
Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar kernel: Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar smbd[544]:
[2006/06/13 17:41:04, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_data(529)
Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar smbd[544]:   read_data: read failure for 4 bytes
to client 192.168.0.108. Error = Operation timed out
Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar kernel: Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar smbd[544]:
read_data: read failure for 4 bytes to client 192.168.0.108. Error =
Operation timed out
Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar smbd[544]: [2006/06/13 17:41:04, 0]
lib/util_sock.c:write_data(557)
Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar kernel: Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar smbd[544]:
[2006/06/13 17:41:04, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(557)
Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar smbd[544]:   write_data: write failure in writing
to client 192.168.0.108. Error Broken pipe
Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar kernel: Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar smbd[544]:
write_data: write failure in writing to client 192.168.0.108. Error
Broken pipe
Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar smbd[544]: [2006/06/13 17:41:04, 0]
lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(765)
Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar kernel: Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar smbd[544]:
[2006/06/13 17:41:04, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(765)
Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar smbd[544]:   Error writing 75 bytes to client.
-1. (Broken pipe)
Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar kernel: Jun 13 17:41:04 foobar smbd[544]:   Error
writing 75 bytes to client. -1. (Broken pipe)
 
For a short while, the XP clients were also experiencing problems with
mapped drive letters not reconnecting or losing their connection.  This
dialog would appear:
 
    An error occurred while reconnecting G: to \\foobar\folder.
    Microsoft Windows Network:
    The local device name is already in use.
    The connection has not been restored.
 
I came across this posting
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ipfw/2005-July/001925.html
and added some logging to my ipfw firewall, which showed that some
packets coming from the clients to port 445 were being denied by a rule
with the 'established' option..  I removed the rule with the ipfw
established option.  This corrected all the symptoms I indicated above.
 
# This rule causes problems with Windows Networking clients
# ipfw -q add 00235 deny log tcp from any to any in established
 
System info...
 
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE GENERIC i386

samba-3.0.22,1      A free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-bounces+andrea=kobayashi.ca at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-bounces+andrea=kobayashi.ca at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of
Pierre MARC
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 10:45 AM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] 3.0.22-solaris10 - Please help !

Hi !!


I have already sent this message to the list, but, as I have not
received
any replies, I am trying again !!


I have Samba 3.0.22 running as PDC on solaris10.

Each time a windows client (XP SP2 or W2003) opens an explorer to access
a share, I see in the log.smbd :

[2006/06/15 01:28:08, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1225)
  getpeername failed. Error was Invalid argument
[2006/06/15 01:28:08, 0] lib/util_sock.c:set_socket_options(261)
  Failed to set socket option SO_KEEPALIVE (Error Invalid argument)
[2006/06/15 01:28:08, 0] lib/util_sock.c:set_socket_options(261)
  Failed to set socket option TCP_NODELAY (Error Invalid argument)
[2006/06/15 01:28:08, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1225)
  getpeername failed. Error was Invalid argument

And in same time in the log.%R :

[2006/06/15 01:28:08, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(557)
  write_data: write failure in writing to client 192.168.202.5. Error
Broken pipe
[2006/06/15 01:28:08, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(765)
  Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. (Broken pipe)

And it seems the windows explorer freezes in the same time, with
sometime an mrxsmb event message.

I've seen that the getpeername message is not a problem. OK for that.

But I haven't seen any answer about the set socket option (Error invalid
argument).
What does it means ?
Is it a real problem ?
Is it particular to solaris ?
I have found similar questions in the samba list, since Jan-2005, but
... no answer.

Please, help !
-- 
Pierre MARC <pierre.marc at id3.eu>
id3 Semiconductors
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