samba - Mar 2001 - smbmount/kernel 2.4.2/Samba 2.0.7 - Unable to use large files/directories

Hi there.

I'm having a very odd problem with samba.  I have a Mandrake 7.2 linux
distro, though I've compiled a 2.4.2 kernel for it (with samba support
compiled in - not a module), and I've also compiled Samba 2.0.7.  When I
mount shares from my win98 machines, if I try to list a large directory
or open a large file, the terminal freezes. I'm able to log in another,
but if I attempt to 'ps aux', that term also freezes.  If I 'ls
/proc/<pid>' where <pid> is the next one after the last process
displayed on the term with the frozen 'ps aux', that term freezes.  If I
leave it alone for a while, it will usally come back to life, and in
/var/log/messages, I get:

Mar  5 10:22:47 ra kernel: smb_get_length: recv error = 104
Mar  5 10:22:47 ra kernel: smb_trans2_request: result=-104, setting
invalid
Mar  5 10:22:47 ra kernel: smb_retry: sucessful, new pid=3860,
generation=2
Mar  5 10:22:47 ra kernel: smb_proc_readdir_long: error=-104, retrying
Mar  5 10:23:47 ra kernel: smb_get_length: recv error = 104
Mar  5 10:23:47 ra kernel: smb_trans2_request: result=-104, setting
invalid
Mar  5 10:23:48 ra kernel: smb_retry: sucessful, new pid=3860,
generation=3
Mar  5 10:23:48 ra kernel: smb_proc_readdir_long: error=-104, retrying

I don't seem to have any other networking issues. I can scp large files
back and forth without any trouble.

Any assistance would be appreciated.  This is an old p133 that I'm
turning into a headless firewall/mp3 player, but it has no drive space,
so I need to smbmount the tunes! :)

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On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Robert M. Voegerl wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> I'm having a very odd problem with samba.  I have a Mandrake 7.2 linux
smbfs, not samba.
> distro, though I've compiled a 2.4.2 kernel for it (with samba support
> compiled in - not a module), and I've also compiled Samba 2.0.7.  When
I
> mount shares from my win98 machines, if I try to list a large directory
> or open a large file, the terminal freezes. I'm able to log in another,
How large directory and how large file? Number of files/directories (or
even better a list of names) and bytes.
> Mar  5 10:22:47 ra kernel: smb_get_length: recv error = 104
> Mar  5 10:22:47 ra kernel: smb_trans2_request: result=-104, setting
> invalid
> Mar  5 10:22:47 ra kernel: smb_retry: sucessful, new pid=3860,
> generation=2
> Mar  5 10:22:47 ra kernel: smb_proc_readdir_long: error=-104, retrying
> Mar  5 10:23:47 ra kernel: smb_get_length: recv error = 104
Hm, one minute exactly.

What are you running that accesses smbfs here? Some mp3 player? which?

> Any assistance would be appreciated.  This is an old p133 that I'm
> turning into a headless firewall/mp3 player, but it has no drive space,
> so I need to smbmount the tunes! :)
Unless your linux machine has a lot of memory (highmem, >4G) you may want
to try 2.4.1 or copy the fs/smbfs/*.c code from 2.4.1 into 2.4.2.

The 2.4.2 smbfs code appears to have some fatal bugs in the dentry code. I
know how to hang my machine and I someone reported bad things when trying
to tar up a remote machine.

Your report doesn't match this completely, it doesn't go away by itself,
but you may want to try 2.4.1 anyway.

/Urban