James A. Dinkel
2007-Jan-09 16:38 UTC
[Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly [SOLVED]
So now, I suppose I should let the list know what I've done to fix this. I found two offending computers, that caused this problem. The first offending computer I found, I just assigned it a static IP and then firewalled it off from the file server. For it's purpose, it's doesn't actually need to access the file server. I then found a second computer that was suspect, and confirmed it was doing the same thing. It didn't have any special software on it, so we just replaced it with a spare and will wipe it's harddrive I set up two test servers: one Debian Sarge using the Backports repo to install Samba, and one Debian Etch with the native Samba. I connected the two bad workstations to these servers and neither exhibited the maxed out proc. Granted I've removed these two bad computers, but I didn't want it to become an issue again in the future. I decided on using Debian Etch since it is within days (maybe) of being released as Stable. I made the switch last night, and so far so good. Luckily I took meticulous notes on my Ubuntu setup so I pretty much did the exact same thing, with ONE difference: I used heimdal Kerberos on Debian instead of the MIT Kerberos I used on Ubuntu, but the setup was the same. James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.