Gregory J. Neumann
2002-Jun-26 16:19 UTC
[Samba] Win XP Pro, Samba 2.2.5, Sybase ASA and Linux 2.2.19
Greetings, all! Samba has served me well these past 4 years. Now I have encountered problems. I hope somebody can give me some insight: Server: custom-compiled Linux 2.2.19 Dual P-III 1000 512 Meg ECC RAM (never touch the swap partitions!) Dual 9 gig Ultra-SCSI drives Software RAID level 1 for the Samba share partition. Sybase ASA v. 7.0.3.2047 for Linux running on the server to provide database services for a Windows business app. Samba v. 2.0.7, updated to 2.2.5 to try to fix things. Problems have started to occur when we changed to WinXP Pro for 5 of the 10 Workstations. The Windows app that uses Sybase has started to crash predictably on the WinXP machines. The Win98 machines are less affected, but seem to be more error prone. Sybase has NOT crashed once, it runs on the Linux side and seems totally unaffected. I've changed the settings to be very promiscuous, as this is a small, trusted LAN isolated from the internet, but nothing seems to help this. The software vendor is blaming Samba/Linux. The errors are mostly "kernel32.dll" related, it usually occurs as information is saved and a print job is generated. NONE of the printers are handled by the samba share, they work from an Intel Netport server. I thought maybe the program needed to run as "administrator", though the vendor says it doesn't, that didn't change this particular problem. Has anybody seen anything like this? Some pertinent smb.conf settings: null passwords = true (hold over from DOS programs) security = user encrypt passwords = yes update encrypted = no socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 load printers = no os level = 65 preferred master = yes local master = yes preferred master = yes wins support = yes [SHARE] path = /raid/smbapp valid users = joe bob mary @samba write list = joe bob mary @samba writeable = yes create mask = 0660 directory mask = 0775 guest ok = yes If you can just give me a clue as to where to start, I don't mind reading, and "testparm" is a wonderful tool! Thanks In Advance! Greg Neumann