samba - Jul 2002 - process hang

Hello,

 

We have installed a linux Mandrake system with Samba 2.2.3 acting as a
PDC.

We need to access to some files on a Windows 2000 Server (acting as a
terminal server). We have created the share on the windows station and
we are able to connect to the windows directory from the linux system. 

First we have use smbmount to mount the share on the windows system. But
when we listed the files in a subdirectory, the process hang.

We have tried to kill this process but it is not working so we decided
to reboot the computer, but the system couldn?t stop so we had to use
the power button to restart the linux server. 

We have found that is appears every time we want to access to a
directory containing a file with uppercase accentuated letters (? ? 
).

We have tried accessing the directories and files using only smbclient
but it hangs too.

We have tried to connect to a Windows XP computer and there were no
problem.

When the process hangs, samba is still running and we can still connect
to the shares existing on the linux server.

 

Does anyone have an idea on what?s happening?

 

Steve Mihy



 

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On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Steve Mihy wrote:
> We have found that is appears every time we want to access to a
> directory containing a file with uppercase accentuated letters (? ? 
).

Are you using a 2.4.18 kernel? There is a known bug which will crash it
when it hits a character it can't map (because you haven't specified any
nls modules to use or because it's the wrong one or something ...).

See if your vendor has an updated kernel, or else build 2.4.19.

> We have tried accessing the directories and files using only smbclient
> but it hangs too.
Don't know anything about that. It could be something else.

/Urban