G'day,
I'm helping with an outback community technology centre, six
workstations and a Linux server running Samba. The six workstations
occasionally freeze during shutdown or login. I'm wondering how to
diagnose this, as I have very little experience with Windows. Is this a
Samba problem?
Symptom: clients freeze sometimes, mouse pointer won't move,
Control/Alt/Delete gives no response. Freeze occurs either during the
last hourglass cursor period once desktop is displayed after login, or
during shutdown, not at any other time. No network traffic seems to
relate.
If the freeze does not occur, the client is able to log in to the
domain, access file shares and printers.
I've found nothing pertinent in the logs yet.
Tried so far ... everything I could de-install using the Control Panel -
Add/Remove Programs icon, a re-install from Windows 98 CD-ROM.
Curiously, it only happens on the workstation hardware ... Duron 900
boxes. If I restore the C: drive using rsync onto other hardware, I get
no such freezes. The hardware runs Linux fine.
The hardware supplier (not Compaq) has no significant experience with
Linux, and is pointing the finger at the server, which I set up as a
community donation.
Server versions: Samba 2.0.7 on Linux 2.2.17, and Samba 2.2.2 on Linux
2.4.17
Client versions: Windows 98 SE only.
Sequence to reproduce freeze: reboot, then hit ESC on domain login
window.
/etc/samba/smb.conf
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from gil-56k-041.tpgi.com.au (202.7.219.41)
# Date: 2001/11/22 11:25:16
# Global parameters
[global]
server string = %h server (Samba %v)
interfaces = 10.0.0.1
encrypt passwords = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
*Retype\snew\sUNIX\spas
sword:* %n\n .
unix password sync = Yes
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba.log.%m
max log size = 1000
time server = Yes
socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096
SO_RCVBUF=4096
logon script = access.bat
domain logons = Yes
os level = 34
preferred master = Yes
domain master = Yes
dns proxy = No
wins support = Yes
utmp directory = /var/run
wtmp directory = /var/log
invalid users = root
utmp = Yes
# added 4th february re issue 48 by james
oplocks = No
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
writeable = Yes
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
browseable = No
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /tmp
invalid users = guest
create mask = 0700
printable = Yes
browseable = No
[public]
comment = Public File Storage
path = /export/samba/public
writeable = Yes
guest ok = Yes
[netlogon]
comment = The domain logon service
path = /export/samba/logon
browseable = No
/export/samba/logon/access.bat:
net time \\server /set /yes
net use p: \\server\public
net use h: /home
--
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/
G'day,
I'm helping with an outback community technology centre, six
workstations and a Debian GNU/Linux (woody) server running Samba.
The six workstations occasionally freeze during shutdown or login. I'm
wondering how to diagnose this, as I have very little experience with
Windows. Is this a Samba problem?
Symptom: clients freeze sometimes, mouse pointer won't move,
Control/Alt/Delete gives no response. Freeze occurs either during the
last hourglass cursor period once desktop is displayed after login, or
during shutdown, not at any other time. No network traffic seems to
relate.
If the freeze does not occur, the client is able to log in to the
domain, access file shares and printers.
I've found nothing pertinent in the logs yet.
Tried so far ... everything I could de-install using the Control Panel -
Add/Remove Programs icon, a re-install from Windows 98 CD-ROM.
Curiously, it only happens on the workstation hardware ... Duron 900
boxes. If I restore the C: drive using rsync onto other hardware, I get
no such freezes. The hardware runs Linux fine.
The hardware supplier (not Compaq) has no significant experience with
Linux, and is pointing the finger at the server, which I set up as a
community donation.
Server versions: Samba 2.0.7 on Linux 2.2.17, Debian GNU/Linux Potato
(2.2/stable) and Samba 2.2.2 on Linux 2.4.17, Debian GNU/Linux Woody
(3.0/testing)
Client versions: Windows 98 SE only.
Sequence to reproduce freeze: reboot, then hit ESC on domain login
window.
/etc/samba/smb.conf
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from gil-56k-041.tpgi.com.au (202.7.219.41)
# Date: 2001/11/22 11:25:16
# Global parameters
[global]
server string = %h server (Samba %v)
interfaces = 10.0.0.1
encrypt passwords = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
*Retype\snew\sUNIX\spas
sword:* %n\n .
unix password sync = Yes
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba.log.%m
max log size = 1000
time server = Yes
socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096
SO_RCVBUF=4096
logon script = access.bat
domain logons = Yes
os level = 34
preferred master = Yes
domain master = Yes
dns proxy = No
wins support = Yes
utmp directory = /var/run
wtmp directory = /var/log
invalid users = root
utmp = Yes
# added 4th february re issue 48 by james
oplocks = No
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
writeable = Yes
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
browseable = No
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /tmp
invalid users = guest
create mask = 0700
printable = Yes
browseable = No
[public]
comment = Public File Storage
path = /export/samba/public
writeable = Yes
guest ok = Yes
[netlogon]
comment = The domain logon service
path = /export/samba/logon
browseable = No
/export/samba/logon/access.bat:
net time \\server /set /yes
net use p: \\server\public
net use h: /home
--
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/