On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:44:24AM +0100, Nacho del Rey wrote:> Ok, it is becoming a nightmare ;-) > Last question Volker > > Is it possible the problem comes from a network device? > At job, we have been suffering problems with a F5 Load Balancer. It seems > that, randomly, it sets the transmission frame to 0 bytes during a while > and routing services don't work very well > > It is planned that this F5 will be upgraded next week to solve these > problems > > Do you think this behaviour makes a collateral effect on samba connections?Windows clients heavily depend on a reliable network connection towards SMB servers they connect to. So flaky network gear between those two can of course negatively impact drive mappings. But without further analysis I can't really say what the problem is here, I don't even exactly know what your users are experiencing :-) Volker -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 G?ttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG G?ttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.sernet.de, mailto:kontakt at sernet.de
The symptom is that the windows process which is accessing the samba share hangs Also, if you try to open the same share (you can do the connection) to see the files, the ls command hangs The other samba shares don't be affected at all, they work ok So the only thing you can do is a reload/restart to resume operations Nacho. 2015-02-11 11:55 GMT+01:00 Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de>:> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:44:24AM +0100, Nacho del Rey wrote: > > Ok, it is becoming a nightmare ;-) > > Last question Volker > > > > Is it possible the problem comes from a network device? > > At job, we have been suffering problems with a F5 Load Balancer. It seems > > that, randomly, it sets the transmission frame to 0 bytes during a while > > and routing services don't work very well > > > > It is planned that this F5 will be upgraded next week to solve these > > problems > > > > Do you think this behaviour makes a collateral effect on samba > connections? > > Windows clients heavily depend on a reliable network connection towards > SMB servers they connect to. So flaky network gear between those two can > of course negatively impact drive mappings. But without further analysis > I can't really say what the problem is here, I don't even exactly know > what your users are experiencing :-) > > Volker > > -- > SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 G?ttingen > phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 > AG G?ttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen > http://www.sernet.de, mailto:kontakt at sernet.de >
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:01:34PM +0100, Nacho del Rey wrote:> The symptom is that the windows process which is accessing the samba share > hangs > Also, if you try to open the same share (you can do the connection) to see > the files, the ls command hangs > > The other samba shares don't be affected at all, they work ok > > So the only thing you can do is a reload/restart to resume operationsTo be honest, in such a case I think it would be best for you to contact someone from https://www.samba.org/samba/support/ to log into your system and really nail down what happens. This can best be solved with direct access to the system, something you don't want to let someone do without a contract and NDA. Volker -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 G?ttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG G?ttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.sernet.de, mailto:kontakt at sernet.de