[Samba] Samba freezes

[Arnaud FLORENT]

on debian there is a script /etc/dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/samba

which can reload samba to handle netbios settings provided by dhcp 
server (wins server, netbios scope)

but it should not reload smbd if no settings have changed


Le 26/06/2017 à 09:01, Rowland Penny via samba a écrit :
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:34:35 +1200
> Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2017-06-25 at 17:54 +0100, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>>> On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 18:11:05 +0200
>>> Antoine Huchet via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have Samba 4.5.8-Debian running on Debian Stretch.
>>>> I use Samba to load games over my local network from my Debian
>>>> machine to my Playstation 2 (using OpenPS2Loader:
>>>> https://github.com/Jay-Jay-OPL/OPL-Daily-Builds).
>>>>
>>>>  From time to time, the game freezes, then after 5 minutes it comes
>>>> back (sometimes it doesn't, depends on the game).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And here is the syslog at the same time:
>>>>
>>>>> Jun 25 16:39:01 serveur CRON[23116]: (root) CMD (  [ -x
>>>>> /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean ] && /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean)
>>>>> Jun 25 16:41:05 serveur dhclient[717]: DHCPREQUEST of
>>>>> 192.168.2.4 on eth0 to 192.168.2.1 port 67
>>>>> Jun 25 16:41:05 serveur dhclient[717]: DHCPACK of 192.168.2.4
>>>>> from 192.168.2.1
>>>>> Jun 25 16:41:05 serveur systemd[1]: Reloading Samba SMB Daemon.
>>>>> Jun 25 16:41:05 serveur systemd[1]: Reloaded Samba SMB Daemon.
>>>>> Jun 25 16:41:05 serveur dhclient[717]: bound to 192.168.2.4 --
>>>>> renewal in 2912 seconds.
>>>>  From what I see, there is the usual stuff on top of the logs,
>>>> then it start echoing someting, then reloads and then it works
>>>> again...
>>>>
>>>> Any idea what might be causing that?
>>>>
>>> It looks like your Samba machine is using DHCP and when it changes
>>> systemd reloads Samba, this will break any connections.
>>>
>>> Try giving your machine a fixed IP instead.
>>>
>> G'Day Rowland,
>>
>> I think you are on to the right thing about the echo and DHCP, except
>> they are in other order.
> Hi Andrew,
>
> The PC asks for an IP
> The PC gets the IP
> Systemd restarts Samba
>
> I thought it was fairly obvious what the problem was, but you seem to
> see it differently, what I cannot understand, why is systemd restarting
> Samba ?
>
> Rowland
>
>