----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 9:08
AM
Subject: SAMBA Problem Sharing root (/)
directory in Win2K SPK2 - Please Advise
Dear all,
I'm running a Windows 2000 SPK2 host and am
attempting to create a SMB file share on a Red Hat v. 6.0 server using an
account with a root (/) home directory. Network Neighbourhood hangs upon login
in, and the root directory on the server becomes unstable, eg. an "ls -al /"
command from linux will hang, as does a "df -k". Eventually something
times out as fuctionality is restored in the / directory after a long wait,
and the Windows hang is relieved when I stop the smbd server. In
the /var/log/messages file, the amd service is indicated reporting
that 'desktop.ini is not a valid host' and that /net is unreachable. I am
guessing that the problem may be related to amd or its mapfile, and automatic
filesystem mounting, but I have no experience in this area if this is the
case. I have a basic filesystem setup with /var and /usr being separate.
The problem does not occur when I change the account home directory to
a dedicated filesystem mount point, eg. /usr, or any directory below
one. Nor does it occur if I access the above (/ share) using linux
smbclient. Sharing root from windows is the only problem. My version of
SAMBA was 2.0.3. and I updated to the latest - v 2.2.5 - still to no
avail. Below is some basic system information. If it is not my system
configuration then perhaps it is something that has been patched in later RH
Linux releases, though I must consider downloading the latest version as a
last resort. Please could someone advise?
Thank you.
Regards,
Furqan Jenkins
smbd Hostname: linux
smbd spawned by inetd.
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Red
Hat Linux version 6.0
SAMBA version 2.2.5
Windows 2000 Professional
service pack 2
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Errors from
/var/log/messages
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Sep 27 07:42:54 linux kernel: nfs: server pid531@linux:/net not responding, still
trying
Sep 27 07:42:58 linux kernel: nfs_revalidate_inode: /// getattr
failed, ino=3, error=-512
Sep 27 07:43:02 linux kernel: nfs: task 1374
can't get a request slot
Sep 27 07:44:03 linux amd[531]: Unknown host:
desktop.ini
Sep 27 07:44:03 linux amd[531]: Using NFS version 0, protocol
udp on host desktop.ini
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Information in /var/log/samba/log.smb
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smbd version 2.0.3 started.
Copyright Andrew
Tridgell 1992-1998
[2002/09/27 15:39:50, 1]
smbd/files.c:file_init(219)
file_init: Information only: requested
10000 open files, 1014 are available.
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My /etc/fstab
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/dev/hda1
/
ext2
defaults
1 1
/dev/hda5
/usr
ext2 defaults
1
2
/dev/hda7 /var
ext2
defaults 1
2
/dev/hda6
swap
swap defaults
0
0
/dev/fd0
/mnt/floppy ext2
noauto 0
0
/dev/cdrom
/mnt/cdrom iso9660
noauto,ro 0
0
none
/proc
proc
defaults
0
0
none
/dev/pts
devpts
mode=0622 0 0
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My /etc/mtab
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/dev/hda1 / ext2 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0
0
/dev/hda5 /usr ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/hda7 /var ext2 rw 0 0
none /dev/pts
devpts rw,mode=0622 0 0
linux:(pid531) /net nfs
intr,rw,port=1023,timeo=8,retrans=110,indirect,map=/etc/amd.conf,dev=00000003
0 0
