Hi all, I've found a few references on a similar problem back in May 2001, but no definitive answer; so I'm posting this, hoping it may help someone with better insights into the question to solve the problem. I'm using samba-2.2.0-20010417 (from the redhat srpm on samba download site); the Dave client was originally a 2.5.2, but I've recently upgraded to a 3.1 with no better luck. The problem is simple: whenever the Dave client starts, it crashes my nmbd daemon. Apparently, Dave is sending some unexpected/uncorrect packets (with a wrong length parameter, from what I get from the debug logs). After a few attempts, I've found out that no crash happens if Samba is not the local master browser... I can live with it, but sincerely it's quite annoying. Today I tried a shot in the dark: I've raised the OS level from 65 to 128... and -incredibly- it seems to work. Well, fair enough... but I'd love to get a grip on what's really going on behind all this... anybody has an answer? Thanks to all in advance, Ant9000 -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Antonio Galea N e t W i s e http://www.netwise.it Sviluppo tecnico Tecnologie per il Web Tel 0461.421016 Fax 0461.426021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- %SYSTEM-F-TOOEARLY, please contact your sysadmin at a sensible time. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- --
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:31:31AM +0100, Antonio Galea wrote:> Hi all, I've found a few references on a similar problem back in May 2001, but > no definitive answer; so I'm posting this, hoping it may help someone with > better insights into the question to solve the problem. > > I'm using samba-2.2.0-20010417 (from the redhat srpm on samba download site); > the Dave client was originally a 2.5.2, but I've recently upgraded to a 3.1 > with no better luck. The problem is simple: whenever the Dave client starts, it > crashes my nmbd daemon. Apparently, Dave is sending some unexpected/uncorrect > packets (with a wrong length parameter, from what I get from the debug logs). > > After a few attempts, I've found out that no crash happens if Samba is not the > local master browser... I can live with it, but sincerely it's quite annoying. > Today I tried a shot in the dark: I've raised the OS level from 65 to 128... > and -incredibly- it seems to work. > > Well, fair enough... but I'd love to get a grip on what's really going on > behind all this... anybody has an answer?Yes, I remember seeing this at the last CIFS interop in Washinton. We fixed it in 2.2 CVS and HEAD (maybe in 2.2.2, also, look at the README). Jeremy.