Matthew,

Can you post your smb.conf so we can see if any looks odd. Also when this happens look to see how many network connects you have with netstat. This may require a tcpdump that has been scrubbed of any sensitive data, if possible.

Jonn

On 03/06/2013 08:27 AM, Joseph, Matthew (EXP) wrote:
Hello JAB,

You need to understand that installing patches and upgrading servers is not a 
simple task when it comes to my situation. My first step is to try to figure 
out if it's a OS fault or if it can be fixed with modifying configurations of 
the OS or in this case Samba (or my configuration of Samba).

You are making a lot of assumptions which is fine if that is what you choose to 
believe. It is a completely closed LAN with multiple layers of security so 
let's leave it at that.
If the solution is to install patches then it is something I will look into but 
again that is a long process that I would prefer not to go into if it is not 
needed for this situation.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Buzzard [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 10:12 AM
To: Joseph, Matthew (EXP)
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: EXTERNAL: Re: [Samba] SAMBA bringing NFS server to a halt

On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 08:28 -0500, Joseph, Matthew (EXP) wrote:
Hello JAB,

Thank you for taking the time to respond to this in a very helpful
manner... If the SAMBA community does not care about helping someone
with a "wildly out of date server" then they should state that before
letting someone join the mailing list.
Given you are running RHEL, you should have been over the last four years been 
reading the security bulletins for RHEL and responding to them appropriately.

It should be apparent to any sensible person that the first step would be to 
check that my distribution does not have fixes for the problems that I am 
seeing. (hint I am 99% certain it does).

This is a production server on a closed LAN which we don't have the
option of upgrading it to RHEL 5.9 or greater in the near future.

No lan is that closed. That you have no procedure for upgrading the OS on your 
server which suffers from a number of remote root security holes that require 
nothing more than a connection to your network is very bad practice.

So with that being said, anyone have any experience with what I am
dealing with?
Read your distro release and security notes. I am 99% certain that this is a 
known problem that can be fixed by upgrading.

JAB.


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