Dear Folks,
I've got a generally well-behaved Solaris 2.5.1 machine running a generally
well-behaved version of 1.9.17p4 running as a daemon. Everything works
beautifully including browsing with the help of a central WINS database on an
NT box and printing using a group of HP printers with JetDirect cards.
BUT...... After printing a document, Samba appears to hang up the connection,
although another seems to start pretty quickly. Running netstat before
printing produces something like the following:
server.netbios- client.1065 8557 0 8760 0 ESTABLISHED
Seconds after spooling the print job, the following appears:
server.netbios- client.1065 8557 0 8760 0 CLOSE_WAIT
The connection will stay in this state until the user tries to access
something on the network drive or until it times out. smbstatus reflects the
above and shows a connection until time-out.
Normally, when the user tries to access anything on the network drive, the
smbd daemon, as expected, kicks off a new process, a new connection is
established and everybody is happy.
HOWEVER, some clients drop the network drive and their users find that they
must re-connect. Sometime this is not possible until the old connection times
out. Both NT and Windows95 clients are affected. I SUSPECT that this is more
of a client problem than a Samba/UNIX one but I can't prove it.
BTW, the print job which causes the problem always comes out OK.
Has anyone seen this phenomenon before and if so, has anyone got a
fix/workaround for it? Any information would be appreciated.
Ken Hamer
khamer@axion.bt.co.uk
