Greetings, I don't know how common an issue this is as I haven't found much in the list archives that was helpful to me, so I'm hoping for some pointers.
FYI, we have samba 2.3.3a-6 running on the 2.4.18-10 kernel. There seems to be an issue with smbfs mounts at times where connectivity may be lost (e.g. Win share becomes unavailable) causing local processes such as lsof or ps, among others, to hang. We've tried passing the "-o sockopt=SO_KEEPALIVE" parameter, but that doesn't seem to have made any difference. How do we set the keepalive time for these smbmounts? Does it use the value in smb.conf? Are we missing something else? The man page for smb.conf seems to suggest using either the IPTOS_LOWDELAY or IPTOS_LOWDELAY/TCP_NODELAY in a local network, and then suggests IPTOS_THROUGHPUT for WANs (it doesn't say if only this flag, or in addition to the previous). We haven't tried either because the document isn't clear. This needs to work in both a LAN and WAN. Are we missing something fundamental in trying to make this stable? Is this even achievable, or is this inherent to this type of connectivity? Regards, Richard Duran __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba