Hi, We've been over this before many times, I think... it's about nmbd crashing in 1.9.17 (all patchlevels, AFAIK). Various suggestions have been suggested (cron jobs to kill off / restart nmbd every hour) but no fixes to nmbd itself (I think). Do the Samba team know of a fix (or could they do one; if they know what the problem is)? A new [fast] machine added to our network recently seems to be able to crash our server very regularly. :) - Bob P.S. On another issue, is 1.9.18 on alpha as far as the domain logon support for NT is concerned? i.e. could I use it on my (largley non-NT) network with reliable support for 95/etc. clients? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You know, there are people who would be unsettled by you." -- Rob P ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob "Mince" Franklin ~{] Tel. (0118) 931 8432 Systems and Communications Fax. (0118) 975 3094 Computer Services Centre R.C.Franklin@reading.ac.uk University of Reading, U.K. http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~mince/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Robert Franklin wrote:> Hi, > > We've been over this before many times, I think... it's about nmbd > crashing in 1.9.17 (all patchlevels, AFAIK). > > Various suggestions have been suggested (cron jobs to kill off / restart > nmbd every hour) but no fixes to nmbd itself (I think). > > Do the Samba team know of a fix (or could they do one; if they know what > the problem is)? A new [fast] machine added to our network recently seems > to be able to crash our server very regularly. :)1) what patch> > - Bob > > P.S. On another issue, is 1.9.18 on alpha as far as the domain logon > support for NT is concerned?if you compile 1.9.18 without -DNTDOMAIN, you will get what is the current (real) 1.9.18 alpha version. 1.9.18 is in alpha, and will go into production regardless of the #ifdef NTDOMAIN code in it, and so will future versions until we are certain that the domain logon code is working. 1.9.18 and all future versions is / are just a "carrier" for the completely independent (parallel) development of domain logon support. once it is working, we will start a stable alpha series for it.> i.e. could I use it on my (largley non-NT) > network with reliable support for 95/etc. clients?the #ifdef NTDOMAIN stuff is DCE/RPC. 95 doesn't support DCE/RPC, except by being rewritten, under which circumstances it would be called NT. i wouldn't use it yet in a production environment: there are a couple of issues to resolve (incorrect passwords seem to stuff things. fine until you get your password wrong by mistake!) luke <a href="mailto:lkcl@switchboard.net" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton </a> <a href="http://mailhost.cb1.com/~lkcl"> Samba Consultancy and Support </a>
Hi,> ok. what compiler are you using? i suspect it's not gcc, or a > compiler that initialises its static variables to all NULLS. > > if not, then bzero the static cli_state structure at the start of the > nmbsync.c routine.I'm using GCC 2.7.2 on Linux 2.0.30 and (currently) 1.9.17p4. Would this make any difference? (OTOH: I can't find cli_state in nmbsync.c, or anyway, for that matter.) - Bob ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You know, there are people who would be unsettled by you." -- Rob P ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob "Mince" Franklin ~{] Tel. (0118) 931 8432 Systems and Communications Fax. (0118) 975 3094 Computer Services Centre R.C.Franklin@reading.ac.uk University of Reading, U.K. http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~mince/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------