[Samba] Many STATUS_INVALID_HANDLE

[Carwyn Edwards]

I'm in the process of trying to track down the cause of frequent Delayed 
Write Failures on our network. Most seem to be from database-like files 
(e.g. firefox/thunderbird sqlite files) that are stored in the users 
Application Data directory. The AppData directory in our case is on a 
mapped network drive and excluded from the set of files copied back and 
forth as part of the roaming profile. (See: 
http://www.css.taylor.edu/~nehresma/samba.html - we do something similar).

The problem files are opened by the applications and held open for long 
periods of time and periodically queried and written to. Note that 
another common culprit is one of the various index.dat files in the IE 
related History or Cookie folders. What seems to happen is that the SMB 
connection drops off at some point before the Delayed Write Failure and 
eventually a return status of STATUS_INVALID_HANDLE triggers the error 
message when the application attempts to access the now presumably stale 
handle?

 From the various network traces I've captured the STATUS_INVALID_HANDLE 
is in response to a QUERY_FILE_INFO on the problem file. What's puzzled 
me is that I'm seeing many STATUS_INVALID_HANDLE responses that don't 
correlate to any visible errors on the client side.

Should we be expecting many STATUS_INVALID_HANDLE responses relating to 
files in a network based roaming profile?

I'm collecting debug data at the moment to try and eliminate some 
possible causes but thought I'd ask in case someone else has had this 
problem? Is the problem really the dropped connections or the handling 
of the dropped connections? Is there another possible cause for the 
invalid handles?

Carwyn





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