Jaime Cifuentes
2002-Jun-07 15:44 UTC
[Samba] Samba questions on AIX server, with win2k clients
Jaime A Cifuentes
IBM GS - SSD AIX/UNIX Sys Supp
Dept ES9D/Bldg 026/700-O
Phone (408) 256-6956 T/L 276
Pager (408) 973-5559
Internet Address:
cifuente@us.ibm.com
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Jaime Cifuentes
To: samba@samba.org
06/05/2002 11:37 cc:
AM From: Jaime Cifuentes/San
Jose/IBM@IBMUS
Subject: Samba questions -
updated
I have downloaded and compiled Samba 2.2.4. The Samba server is used
to access DFS space, so it was configured with DCE authentication. It
seems to work on for the most part. However we have seen the following
behavior:
When opening a directory with a large number of files, it spawns
additional smbd processes for the mapped share, which utilize a good
percentage of the CPU. My windows workstation hangs for a while, and I
get multiple Windows Msgs that read: "An error occurred while
reconnecting Z to <share> - Microsoft Windows Network: the local device
name is already in use - This connection has not been restored".
The smbd processes remain at the top of the execution queue (I use
"monitor" to view system execution queue in AIX).
I used Windows Explorer to map the share and to display directory
contents. This crashed when I closed the Window Msg.
My environment is as follows:
AIX 4.3.3 at ML_09 for the Samba server, with DCE/DFS 3.1.
Windows 2000 as the samba client.
I tried both, disk and memory cache for the DFS client, but behaviour
did not change. Also, this seems to happen only on Windows 2K.
Are there any configuration parameters I could use to prevent the
spawning of multiple smbd processes, and be able to see the large
directory? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jaime A Cifuentes