samba - Nov 1997 - automountd hangs

Hi Samba admins,

I was wondering if any of you had problems with your automounter with 
Samba ?

My environment is:
Samba 1.9.17p4 on a Sparc20 running Solaris 2.5.1 with the home 
directories defined in the NIS+ tables.  The client are all Win95 PC.

Lately, we lose the automounter on the Sun host.  Even logged in as root 
on the console I cannot 'cd' to the /home directory.

We have been running 5 users for 3 months without problems.  In the last 
few weeks we started to install everyone.  We are now around 50 PC.

I am trying to figure out where the problem is coming from since I don't 
have any error messages in /var/adm/messages.

I also read that samba v1.9.17p2 fixed some problems with the 
automounter.  Is there still problem ?

Any help will be appreciated.  Thank you.


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===================================================Gaetan Boudreau, ing/P.Eng.
Administrateur de reseau/Network Administrator
IRCM (Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal/
      Clinical Research Institute of Montreal)

tel: 514-987-5563   fax: 514-987-5644
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On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, SI-Gaetan Boudreau wrote:
> I am trying to figure out where the problem is coming from since I
don't
> have any error messages in /var/adm/messages.
check the status of the smbd processes (/usr/local/bin/smbstatus | more) at
the time of the problem: you may get some clues from this.  i would be
*particularly* interested to hear if you happen to have *two* smbd processes
running for *one* w95 client.

the fact that you say the problem occurs for /home is giving me an itch, 
and it's associated with when multiple users log in and log out of a 
samba server.

i'll make a wild guess, and say "you're running with domain logons
=
yes", aren't you?

> I also read that samba v1.9.17p2 fixed some problems with the 
> automounter.  Is there still problem ?
answering your question directly: i don't know.  1.9.17p2 was a *long* 
time ago for me :-)



the code that reads the "auto.map" file is very simple at the moment. 
it
takes the server component and creates a default entry of 
\\server\HOMES for the home directory

unfortunately, if you specified "logon path = anything" this was lost.
so,
in 1.9.18, i created a new option %S, which is the server component of the
auto.map entry for a user.  this defaults to the local server, if there is no
auto.map entry, or you compile samba without -DAUTOMAP support. 

lukes


<a href="mailto:lkcl@switchboard.net"  > Luke Kenneth Casson
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