Hi, I've a huge problem with Samba. It's the PDC of the school LAN. Clients are NTWS 4. Samba has been up and running for 11 days and now, since 2 days, force me to reboot the whole server everyday to work. I explain : when doing an "ps aux" or "smbstatus", i saw A LOT of "smbd -D" started for the same user 10 times in about 2 minutes. When I try to kill them, it didn't do anything even after shutting down the Samba suite. More, smbstatus warns me about locked files in RD_ONLY or RDWR status and DENY_ALL mode. The pointed files are in the /home/$user directory which is 0755 accessible. One last thing : while rebooting the server in order to kill all misworking smbd threads, it can't unmount /home, /var, / and other filesystems saying they are "busy". So, during boot time, while force-checking the directories structures, it discovers many many wrong dtime, inodes and other errors ... i really don't know what's happening, any ideas ? Thanks for your help, Ionel ___________________________________________________________ Nokia 5510 Dr?le de look... et quel son ! Cliquez sur fr.promotions.yahoo.com/nokia D?couvrez-le et tentez votre chance pour en gagner un ! Fin du concours le 16 d?cembre.
having had similar problems with runaway smbd processes I can offer this advice: if you cannot kill the smbd processes with a 'kill -9 xxx' then there is a problem with your kernel. I would wipe all your samba source and install, get a new kernel source and recompile both the kernel and samba again. Bit of a sledgehammer approach but basically your kernel is not working as it should. Noel -----Original Message----- From: Ionel GARDAIS [mailto:igardais@yahoo.fr] Sent: 07 December 2001 09:36 To: samba@samba.org Subject: "smbd -D" gone wild ... Hi, I've a huge problem with Samba. It's the PDC of the school LAN. Clients are NTWS 4. Samba has been up and running for 11 days and now, since 2 days, force me to reboot the whole server everyday to work. I explain : when doing an "ps aux" or "smbstatus", i saw A LOT of "smbd -D" started for the same user 10 times in about 2 minutes. When I try to kill them, it didn't do anything even after shutting down the Samba suite. More, smbstatus warns me about locked files in RD_ONLY or RDWR status and DENY_ALL mode. The pointed files are in the /home/$user directory which is 0755 accessible. One last thing : while rebooting the server in order to kill all misworking smbd threads, it can't unmount /home, /var, / and other filesystems saying they are "busy". So, during boot time, while force-checking the directories structures, it discovers many many wrong dtime, inodes and other errors ... i really don't know what's happening, any ideas ? Thanks for your help, Ionel ___________________________________________________________ Nokia 5510 Dr?le de look... et quel son ! Cliquez sur fr.promotions.yahoo.com/nokia D?couvrez-le et tentez votre chance pour en gagner un ! Fin du concours le 16 d?cembre. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba