Folks, we operate a file-server using Samba running on HP-UX 10.20. Recently, we noticed that people trying to form new connections to Samba shares were occasionally able to connect (eg getting a 'network name not found' error) - and looking at their client log files in /opt/samba/var, Samba was core dumping, with the following text : ==============================================================INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 19391 (1.9.18p10) Please read the file BUGS.txt in the distribution ==============================================================Last message was SMBtrans size=95 smb_com=0x25 smb_rcls=0 smb_reh=0 smb_err=0 smb_flg=0 smb_flg2=0 smb_tid=68 smb_pid=8257 smb_uid=0 smb_mid=32129 smt_wct=14 smb_vwv[0]=19 (0x13) smb_vwv[1]=0 (0x0) smb_vwv[2]=8 (0x8) smb_vwv[3]=4096 (0x1000) smb_vwv[4]=0 (0x0) smb_vwv[5]=0 (0x0) smb_vwv[6]=5000 (0x1388) smb_vwv[7]=0 (0x0) smb_vwv[8]=0 (0x0) smb_vwv[9]=19 (0x13) smb_vwv[10]=76 (0x4C) smb_vwv[11]=0 (0x0) smb_vwv[12]=0 (0x0) smb_vwv[13]=0 (0x0) smb_bcc=32 [000] 5C 50 49 50 45 5C 4C 41 4E 4D 41 4E 00 00 00 57 \PIPE\LA NMAN...W [010] 72 4C 65 68 00 42 31 33 42 57 7A 00 01 00 00 10 rLeh.B13 BWz..... ============================================================== Sometimes this would happen 3 or 4 times before the connection was formed; at other times, the connection could not be formed. Since we were running an old version (1.9.18p10), we upgraded a second machine to version 2.0.7 - but the same thing was happening. Finally, after a couple of weeks of attempting a fix (including installing HP-UX patches etc), we discovered the cause - the smb.conf file was too long. - at 20526 bytes (887 lines), Samba would core dump regularly - at 20318 bytes (878 lines), Samba would run fine on version 1.9.18p10, but would still core dump on 2.0.7 - at 20118 bytes (869 lines), both versions of Samba run ok. Presumably, at the large file sizes, some sort of internal limit was passed which was causing memory corruption. Would it be an idea to change 'testparms' to tell the user if smb.conf is too large? Possibly this has been included in the very latest version, I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. Thanks, Peter Peter Davidson Services Team, BT ISE Belfast tel. 028 9041 4193 ; fax 028 9023 2404 email : peter.davidson@bt.com