can anyone tell me what these sorts of errors in log.smbd mean? my searches thus far haven't uncovered anything at all recent [2011/04/25 23:19:43, 0] smbd/dir.c:292(dptr_close) Invalid key 0 given to dptr_close we have samba 3.4.8 running under solaris10; the number of clients ranges between 30-100 at any given time. all works flawlessly for months at a time, yet every few months or so, smb connection attempts are no longer answered, current connections begin to die off and system resources appear starved enough that, eg, nfs exports go unresponsive and incoming ssh connections time out (though existing shell sessions behave as normal). though the system logs show nothing wrong, netstat indicates significantly more connections over port 139 than actual smbd processes (never the case under normal circumstances). as everything begins to spiral down the toilet, log.smbd begins to record more and more error messages like the one mentioned above before it too craps out. stopping the parent smbd process & killing (-14) it's remaining children is not enough to get the system functional again (eg, it still times out on incoming ssh connections, etc)--only a full restart seems sufficient. immediately before the other night's crash, log.smbd appears to record a mac user (can tell by all the resource forks) dropping off a few hundred file system objects at once; not 100% sure this is the problem, but all else looks normal. has anyone else seen such a problem before? anyone have any ideas on how to go about nailing down the problem or finding a solution? smb.conf looks like this: [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP netbios name = STORAGE server string = STORAGE bind interfaces only = True interfaces = bge0 999.999.999.999 deadtime = 20 debug level = 2 security = user password level = 8 encrypt passwords = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY follow symlinks = yes wide links = yes unix extensions = no [user_partition] comment = user_partition... path = /samba_vol/users read only = No create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 inherit permissions = Yes inherit acls = Yes map acl inherit = Yes map archive = No map readonly = permissions thanks, everyone for your attention and (hopefully) ideas... -joe ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joe Cammisa <jcammisa at haverford.edu> Date: Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:44 PM Subject: samba mailing list post fyi.. To: rhinojos at haverford.edu ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [Samba] samba 3.4.8 / solaris / unix secondary groups From: "Joe Cammisa" <jcammisa at haverford.edu> Date: Fri, August 20, 2010 12:40 pm To: samba at lists.samba.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- samba-3.4.8 built under solaris_10 (--with-krb5=/usr/local/lib --with-ads --with-ldap); on my test server it runs flawlessly; however on the production server, there is a big exception: users' secondary group memberships are not honored. relevant portions of smb.conf (the same on both servers, save for the ip addys) are as follows: [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP netbios name = BLABLA server string = SAMBA bind interfaces only = True interfaces = bge0 199.99.99.99 deadtime = 20 debug level = 2 security = user password level = 8 encrypt passwords = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY follow symlinks = yes wide links = yes unix extensions = no [stuff] comment = stuff... path = /vol1/stuff read only = No create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 inherit permissions = Yes inherit acls = Yes map acl inherit = Yes map archive = No map readonly = permissions again, same samba version, built against the same libraries in the same way with the same config file in both cases. any one with an idea how i might make this work? many thanks in advance!! -joe -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- Joe Cammisa Networking & Systems College Information Resources Haverford College phone: 1-610-896-4239 email: jcammisa at haverford.edu