[Samba] Samba 3.0.25c Going Nuts on our Network???

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 04:07:50PM -0500, David Rankin wrote:
> POSTED TO THE LIST W/O ATTACHMENTS
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> Jerry,
> 
> 	I am sending this to you directly because it contains the tcpdump
> information in addition to the samba logs just in case there is sensitive
> information contained in the files.
> 
> 	What is happening is that samba 3.0.25c, after first running
> smoothly, is becoming very "chatty" across our LAN. I don't know why, but
> with no files or applications open, smb is throwing about 4-5 packets a
> second at each windows XP client. This was causing noticeable network
> slowness. It is definitely 3.0.25c because after I grabbed the packets and
> the logs, I did a make revert to 3.0.25 and the noise on the network
> completely stopped. It seems like there is a race condition somewhere. I may
> need to send you a level 10, but when this occurred, I didn't have level 10
> set so I just grabbed a tcpdump of the traffic and the log files I had.

Can you get a network trace here please so we can see what the
packets are ?

Jeremy.