[Samba] Mac OSX clients - slow display & copy times with image files

Nathan A Friedl nate at northwestern.edu
Fri Jul 15 15:09:58 MDT 2011


We've been having intermittent problems with our Mac OS clients and our file servers.  We've had a few reports of 10.6.x clients opening folders (usually consisting of image files) and having the Finder hang for an extended period of time before it finishes displaying the files.  Additionally, when trying to copy a number of image files into another folder, I have witnessed it hang for 10+ minutes before starting the copy.

A little more information on our setup:  We have 2 RHEL 4u6 file servers, kernel version 2.6.9-100 x86_64 running samba 3.5.8.  They are pulling users and groups from our Windows 2003 Domain controller.  The 10.6.x clients that have been reporting problems are bound to our domain and a Mac OS 10.5 server we use for workgroup management.

The samba logs for the client haven't revealed anything obvious to us (and are chock full of noise since the Macs insist on reading the metadata of everything in a folder when the folder is opened), but the log.winbindd-idmap log displays the following, which we are interpreting to mean that the system may be temporarily unable to map the SID to the uid:

[2011/06/03 11:35:09.940054, 10] winbindd/idmap_ad.c:581(idmap_ad_sids_to_unixids)
  Filter: [(&(|(sAMAccountType=XXXXXXXX)(sAMAccountType= XXXXXXXX)(sAMAccountType= XXXXXXXX)(sAMAccountType= XXXXXXXX)(sAMAccountType= XXXXXXXX))( |(objectSid=\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX\XX)))]

[2011/06/03 11:35:09.940598,  1] winbindd/idmap_ad.c:651(idmap_ad_sids_to_unixids)
  Could not get unix ID

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,

Nathan Friedl
Systems Analyst/Programmer - Weinberg IT



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