Support
1999-Oct-26 17:28 UTC
Samba running but stops working? Then no work after restart?
Greetings, I have a FreeBSD 3.1 and Samba 2.0.5a box doing domain logons and file sharing to about 250+ desktops and upgraded about 21 days ago I have encountered something very interesting. Win9x boxes can no longer login. So , I examine the problem and it appears that things are ok but none of the things samba is supposed to be doing is happening. Again this box serves many operations on the network and all except samba is working. So I stop samba via samba.sh stop from the rc.d folder and I do a ps -x and there is several smbd processes running still (about 30 or so) . I restart samba since the server is perfomring normaly for other operations. I examine the samba log files and they say all is well, but, still no logons occuring from win9x boxes. After about an hour of trying to get samba restarted I reluctantly took the server down and upon a reboot all is well again. I have no idea what would cause this, but having concern about the open processes after a sambs.sh stop I set a deadtime in the smb.conf thining perhaps these open connections are causing a resource problem in samba. Any thoughts welcome! -- Richard Nelson Try Something Without GPF's - - Not To Mention The Cost:) FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org RedHat http://www.redhat.com Strong Supporter of Visual Tcl http://www.neuron.com/stewart/vtcl/
Gerald Carter
1999-Oct-27 02:17 UTC
Samba running but stops working? Then no work after restart?
Support wrote:> > > I have no idea what would cause this, but having > concern about the open processes after a sambs.sh stop I > set a deadtime in the smb.conf thining perhaps these > open connections are causing a resource problem in samba.Usually you can just kill -9 the processes and then restart Samba. Have not come across a situation where it required a reboot to clear the processes out of memory. Is this what you are saying happened? jerry ________________________________________________________________________ Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter Engineering Network Services Auburn University jerry@eng.auburn.edu http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home." - Sting "Message in a Bottle" ( 1979 )