DON_MCCALL@HP-USA-om1.om.hp.com
1999-Sep-26 12:09 UTC
SMBMount losing connections to NT server
Hi all, Just a thought - I'm running Samba on HP-UX 10.20,11.0, and MPE/iX, so no SMBMount for me. But Steve's idea that an update to files on the smbserver during a period of inactivity on the smbclient being involved led me to question if this could be an issue with the 'change notify' NT Transact mechanism; Some clients, when doing a treeconnect to an smbshare, will then send an NT Transact smb with a function code (I think '4', don't remember at the moment) called 'change notify'. The smb server, if it supports it, then will keep this machine in a list to 'notify' via an 'notify change' nt transact smb when anything changes on the tree (delete, rename, etc). Possibly if NT needs to 'notify' the client after some period of inactivity has caused the smbmount client to drop the connection, since the request is being generated by the SERVER, this is causing a problem???? Just a thought - if someone with linux and smbmount wants to test this out, it should be pretty simple to determine... Don