Hi!! Experts I am running Samba on Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 8) and users are using thru winodows work station and intermittently their access hangs, below are the messages from /var/log/messages Pl. help!!!!!!!! Jun 19 09:29:08 dlhl0211 automount[2028]: failed to mount /scratch/* Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: [2007/06/19 09:29:28, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(36) Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: ==============================================================Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: [2007/06/19 09:29:28, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(37) Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 7 in pid 1298 (3.0.9-1.3E.9) Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: Please read the appendix Bugs of the Samba HOWTO collection Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: [2007/06/19 09:29:28, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(39) Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: ==============================================================Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: [2007/06/19 09:29:28, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1504) Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: PANIC: internal error Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: [2007/06/19 09:29:28, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1512) Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: BACKTRACE: 20 stack frames: Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #0 smbd(smb_panic2+0x10b) [0x2a9570c6cb] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #1 smbd(smb_panic+0xe) [0x2a9570c5ae] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #2 smbd [0x2a956faa29] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #3 /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 [0x2a96d7fa20] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #4 /lib64/tls/libc.so.6(memcpy+0x60) [0x2a96dd0740] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #5 smbd [0x2a9571d893] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #6 smbd [0x2a9571e317] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #7 smbd [0x2a9571e714] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #8 smbd(tdb_store+0x108) [0x2a9571f708] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #9 smbd(claim_connection+0x20e) [0x2a955cc10e] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #10 smbd [0x2a9561705e] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #11 smbd(make_connection+0xf9) [0x2a95617e99] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #12 smbd(reply_tcon_and_X+0x1bd) [0x2a955e653d] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #13 smbd [0x2a956150de] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #14 smbd [0x2a956152aa] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #15 smbd(process_smb+0x8d) [0x2a9561547d] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #16 smbd(smbd_process+0x147) [0x2a95616197] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #17 smbd(main+0x3e7) [0x2a95778fd7] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #18 /lib64/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd7) [0x2a96d6d1d7] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: #19 smbd [0x2a955c09aa] Jun 19 09:29:28 dlhl0211 smbd[1298]: Jun 19 09:29:36 dlhl0211 smbd[1843]: [2007/06/19 09:29:36, 0] smbd/dfree.c:disk_free(138) Jun 19 09:29:36 dlhl0211 smbd[1843]: WARNING: dfree is broken on this system Jun 19 09:20:15 dlhl0211 smbd[1241]: tdb(/etc/samba/secrets.tdb): tdb_lock failed on list 55 ltype=1 (Interrupted system call) Jun 19 09:20:15 dlhl0211 smbd[1241]: [2007/06/19 09:20:15, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_chainlock_with_timeout_internal(77) Jun 19 09:20:15 dlhl0211 smbd[1241]: tdb_chainlock_with_timeout_internal: alarm (10) timed out for key DLHDC02 in tdb /etc/samba/secrets.tdb Jun 19 09:20:15 dlhl0211 smbd[1068]: [2007/06/19 09:20:15, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725) Jun 19 09:20:15 dlhl0211 smbd[1068]: tdb(/etc/samba/secrets.tdb): tdb_lock failed on list 55 ltype=1 (Interrupted system call) Jun 19 09:20:15 dlhl0211 smbd[1068]: [2007/06/19 09:20:15, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_chainlock_with_timeout_internal(77) Jun 19 09:20:15 dlhl0211 smbd[1068]: tdb_chainlock_with_timeout_internal: alarm (10) timed out for key DLHDC02 in tdb /etc/samba/secrets.tdb Jun 19 09:20:16 dlhl0211 smbd[1094]: [2007/06/19 09:20:16, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725) Jun 19 09:20:16 dlhl0211 smbd[1094]: tdb(/etc/samba/secrets.tdb): tdb_lock failed on list 55 ltype=1 (Interrupted system call) Jun 19 09:20:16 dlhl0211 smbd[1094]: [2007/06/19 09:20:16, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_chainlock_with_timeout_internal(77) Jun 19 09:20:16 dlhl0211 smbd[1094]: tdb_chainlock_with_timeout_internal: alarm (10) timed out for key DLHDC02 in tdb /etc/samba/secrets.tdb Jun 19 09:20:17 dlhl0211 smbd[1047]: [2007/06/19 09:20:17, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725) Jun 19 09:20:17 dlhl0211 smbd[1047]: tdb(/etc/samba/secrets.tdb): tdb_lock failed on list 55 ltype=1 (Interrupted system call) Jun 19 09:20:17 dlhl0211 smbd[1047]: [2007/06/19 09:20:17, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_chainlock_with_timeout_internal(77) Jun 19 09:20:17 dlhl0211 smbd[1047]: tdb_chainlock_with_timeout_internal: alarm (10) timed out for key DLHDC02 in tdb /etc/samba/secrets.tdb Thanks Indy