[Samba] Win7 clients problem after upgrading samba file server to 4.12 on Arch

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon May 4 21:02:56 UTC 2020


Thanks for getting back to us,

On Mon, 2020-05-04 at 22:57 +0200, pavlos via samba wrote:
> @Rowland,
> Installing and changing to LTS kernel 5.4.38-1-lts doesn't help.
> Downgrading samba and smbclient to 4.11.3 DOES help.
> 
> @Andrew, let me first clean up with kernel/samba versions, set log
> level to
> 10 and log limit to 0, delete all logs and repeat the whole exercise.
> Please advice how to get a network capture, I am not that expert...

Our standard advise on network packet capture is here:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Capture_Packets

Finally, as you are on a rolling distro, can you try Samba master, if
only for giggles?

Andrew Bartlett

> Regards, Pawel.
> 
> pon., 4 maj 2020 o 22:50 Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
> napisał(a):
> 
> > Can you get a network capture, and also ensure the logs have the
> > exact
> > time you see the failure in it (and tell us that time, to the
> > highest
> > resolution you can)?  I can't see anything suspicious, but at log
> > level
> > 10 the 'log limit = 50' will cut in very fast, so it might have
> > been
> > lost.  Set that to 0.
> > 
> > Andrew Bartlett
> > 
> > On Mon, 2020-05-04 at 22:28 +0200, pavlos via samba wrote:
> > > Logs are here:
> > > http://www.mediafire.com/file/qqwfkf3rsuv081k/logs.tar.gz/file
> > > 
> > > 1. I have stopped smb and nmb services,
> > > 2. deleted all samba logs,
> > > 3. addied 'log level - 10' to smb.conf,
> > > 4. started services,
> > > 5. performed few tests until some problems appeared,
> > > 6. stopped smb and nmb services
> > > 7. and grabbed all logs.
> > > As this is test environment - nothing to sanitize. All logs
> > > unchanged.
> > > For better understanding:
> > > 
> > >    - 192.168.1.103, netbios name 'saloon' - Win7x32 client
> > >    - 192.168.1.108, netbios name 'attic' - win7x32 client
> > >    - 192.168.1.115, hostname 'arch1' - the test Samba server,
> > > Arch
> > > Linux
> > >    5.6.10-arch1-1
> > > 
> > > Regards, Pawel.
> > > 
> > > pon., 4 maj 2020 o 21:45 Rowland penny via samba <
> > > samba at lists.samba.org>
> > > napisał(a):
> > > 
> > > > On 04/05/2020 20:21, pavlos wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > All clients are connecting either anonymously read-only which
> > > > > leverages the 'nobody' samba user, or using 'ala' user/pwd.
> > > > > Both
> > > > > have
> > > > > same problems.
> > > > > 
> > > > > No local 'ala' users on any client machine. In Windows login
> > > > > dialog I
> > > > > am supplying username as '192.168.1.115\ala' and the defined
> > > > > password
> > > > > (....115 is the IP address of the test samba server).
> > > > 
> > > > Try it without the the IP i.e. just 'ala'
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have also put 'log level = 10' to your smb.conf, but the
> > > > > hiccup
> > > > > on
> > > > > Win7 remains. As I said - the stupid message box in Windows
> > > > > pops
> > > > > up
> > > > > randomly.
> > > > 
> > > > This could be a Windows error, but something might have changed
> > > > in
> > > > Samba
> > > > that is now causing it.
> > > > > This short exercise has produced about 100 KB of compressed
> > > > > logs.
> > > > > How
> > > > > might I share them with you and all in the mailing list?
> > > > 
> > > > Post them somewhere (after sanitising them) and then provide a
> > > > link
> > > > to it.
> > > > 
> > > > Rowland
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
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Andrew Bartlett                       https://samba.org/~abartlet/
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