On 8/28/07, Ross, Ronnie L (GNF) <ronnie.ross@gnf.com>
wrote:> I am running Samba 2.2.8 on a VMS 7.3-2 DS20.
>From the OpenVMS Freeware collection? Or from
http://www.pi-net.dyndns.org/anonymous/jyc/?
> It looks like NMBD is in a tight loop.
> I can stop samba and start it back and it will go away for a short time.
> But, the problem comes back.
We've seen this problem too, although it only happens once a month or
so for us. Samba 2.2.8 is *extremely* old, and I don't think that it
was ever officially ported to OpenVMS, so I'm afraid it's pretty
unlikely that we'll find a fix. HP is working on an official port of
Samba 3.x (see http://h71000.www7.hp.com/network/CIFS_for_Samba.html).
Although it's still in testing, it could easily be more reliable than
Samba 2.2.8. I've been meaning to test it for our office but haven't
yet had time (or a spare Alpha to test it on).
Also, you may not need to run NMBD at all. For example, if you're
able to instead of a modern version of nmbd on a Linux or Unix box, I
think that Samba on the Alpha will work even without NMBD. I could be
wrong, however.
Josh Kelley