I service a small office with 6 XP computers. I just installed a server
running CentOS 5.4 and Samba 3.0.33. They use a program called
"On-screen Takeoff". This program accesses a couple database files that
live on the shared drive. "Projects.ldb" and "Projects.mdb" On-screen
takeoff stays open all day, and maintains access to it's database files
all day.
The folks at the office complained that On-screen Takeoff would
occasionally lose access to the database. I came in and found a couple
strange symptoms. First, in /var/log/messages, Samba is spewing dozens
of times per second:
Mar 3 17:18:30 localhost smbd[5556]: [2010/03/03 17:18:30, 0]
smbd/notify_inotify.c:inotify_handler(249)
Mar 3 17:18:30 localhost smbd[5556]: No data on inotify fd?!
Second, lsof shows over a thousand concurrent connections to
"Projects.ldb".
From what I can see, this looks like the same problem that Excel
occasionally causes.
I have included "kernel change notify = no" "notify:inotify = no" under
global in smb.conf, and still see the inotify errors in /var/log/messages.
What is happening here? Is this a Samba bug? Why does turning off
inotify in smb.conf not stop the error messages?
Thanks for any help,
Jonathan Bennett
smb.conf
[global]
kernel change notify = no
notify:inotify = no
workgroup = ENDEX
netbios name = ENDEX1
printcap name = cups
disable spoolss = Yes
show add printer wizard = No
printing = cups
wins support = yes
name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S
read only = No
browseable = No
[public]
notify:inotify = no
kernel change notify = no
comment = Data
path = /export
force user = [removed]
force group = users
read only = No
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
printer admin = root, [removed]
create mask = 0600
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
use client driver = Yes
browseable = No
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