Client hangs while browsing remote resources

[ggamba]

I have installed ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/samba-3.0.26a-os2-20070912-wpi-v5.wpi on the server and NDFS plus ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/ndpsmb-3.0.26a-20070912.ZIP on the client. Browsing the shared resources frequently hangs the client. This is more evident while browsing via WPS. When the client hangs, the WPS does not respond anymore for several seconds, or some minutes, or forever.

The logs are snapshot of the following situation: server (192.168.1.1) just started with log level 5. Resource (Q) mounted on client (192.168.1.11). Volume Q opened via WPS, then q:\programs\pronews.exe started (launch failed, btw). Resource unmounted, server switched off and logs copied. Another client exists (192.168.1.10) but has no resource mounted. The server has two network interface, if this is of any interest.

Any suggestion? In the beginning I thought this was a problem on the client side, but in previous experiments I have sometimes seen the server hogged with 99% CPU, so maybe it is instead a server problem...

Please ask if more information are needed! Bye Gabriele

[ggamba]

Samba server configuration file

[ggamba]

Log from client

[ggamba]

I have just realized that, a few minutes (2 or 3) after switching on the samba server with "smb.cmd start", in the \MPTN\ETC\SAMBA\PID directory there is just nmbd.pid. Does this mean that smbd has crashed? But why the .pid file disappear?

[ggamba]

Extended attributes for a PDF file opened on a share resource.

[ggamba]

The same file copied back on locale resource; EA names are now correct

[ggamba]

Extended attributes for another PDF file opened on a share resource. Names are still wrong but different.

[ggamba]

Hi all, see the 3 attached screenshots. They are from PDF files on locale and Samba resource. The right name for the EA created by Lucide should be "LUCIDE_THUMBNAIL".

[ggamba]

Samba logs file and smb.conf

[ggamba]

I close this ticket as I have splitted this one to tickets #39, #41 and #42.