hi, we using samba3.0.7 with a ldap(tls). it works fine. no problems with dns (reverse) lookups etc. all 20 xp clients can logon fast into the samba machine and access all shares.
the problem since 3 weeks is, that after a while all shares freeze for 10-20 seconds in a user session and the user have to wait to continue. not all user at the time. the user get no response from explorer, the computer freezes. the only change is, that we installed 5-10 clients. it looks like that sometimes users waiting for samba freeing resources or something like that, but it's not truth, because in the samba log there are no activities for that session. if the machine get the share's content, the samba is starting with logging and the user can continue with work. what the hell is xp doing in that case? or is samba wating for ldap? but the ldap responses queries all the time without any problems. samba is a big machine with 2gig ram, 0,5tg raid5 etc. and has enough reserves. and the next problem is, that after freezing outlook looses the connection to the pst file on home drive. with restarting outlook the pst is locked. after 6 reboots or waiting 10 minutes outlook can access the file. when is samba releasing the read/write lock for files with lost connections? 27757 DENY_WRITE 0x2019f RDWR NONE /media/array/home/mess/Outlook.pst we install etheral on samba and xp client. we found out the samba is missing the guest account or cannot find some files etc. trying every configuration tweaks, we downgraded to samba 3.05... at the end we doesnt found a solution, frustrating. the user are irritated. my boss is pissed off. have someone an idea. it will be great. i dont want replace samba with a windose machine to fix the problem :( cheers tom our current running smb.conf/attempt: [global] ;; debugging support ;debug level = 9 ;debug hires timestamp = Yes ; basic server settings netbios name = PDC2 ; netbios aliases = PFS2 PPS2 server string = ESMT Server workgroup = ESMT-BERLIN announce version = 5.0 announce as = Windows 2000 Enterprise Server socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192 ; socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192 ; user and machine account backends passdb backend = ldapsam:"ldap://ldap1.campus.esmt.org" guest ; name resolve order = host lmhosts wins bcast ; should act as the domain and local master browser os level = 64 preferred master = yes domain master = yes local master = yes ; security settings security = user ; necessary for domain controller encrypt passwords = yes ; support domain logons domain logons = yes ; user's home and profile directory logon drive = H: logon home = \\PDC2\%U logon path = \\PDC2\profile$\%U ; ldap related stuff ldap suffix = o=berlin,dc=esmt,dc=org ldap admin dn = cn=manager,ou=samba,o=berlin,dc=esmt,dc=org ldap filter = "(&(uid=%u)(objectClass=sambaSamAccount))" ldap ssl = start tls #ldap ssl = yes #ldap ssl = no ldap delete dn = no ldap user suffix = ou=users ldap machine suffix = ou=samba ; ldap trust ids = yes ; sync samba with unix password ; unix password sync = yes ; passwd program = /usr/local/sbin/ldapsync.pl -o %u ; passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *modifying* ; passwd chat debug = yes ldap passwd sync = yes ; idmap backend = ldap:ldap://192.168.52.31 ; ldap idmap suffix = ou=samba,o=munich,dc=esmt,dc=org ; idmap uid = 10000-20000 ; idmap gid = 10000-20000 ; wins server wins support = yes remote announce = 192.168.52.23/ESMT-MUNICH remote browse sync = 192.168.52.23 ; wins support = yes ; wins server = 192.168.90.33 192.168.52.23 ; dns proxy = no ; using interface protection interfaces = eth0 lo bind interfaces only = yes ; fs related stuff hide dot files = yes ; auto-disconnection root postexec = echo -e "[%T] auto-disconnection\n %u disconnected from %S from %m (%I)" >> /usr/local/samba/var/log.smbd deadtime = 0 ; limitations max log size = 200000 max connections = 0 max smbd processes = 0 ; time server time server = yes ; Listen for SMB traffic only on port 139. This may help avoid ; lost connection issues under Windows XP. smb ports = 139 ; using a ipc share deny [ipc$] hosts allow = 0.0.0.0/0 ; hosts allow = 192.168.80.0/24 192.168.52.0/24 192.168.16.0/24 127.0.0.1 ; hosts allow = 192.168.80. EXCEPT 192.168.80.10 ; hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0 ; hosts deny = localhost 0.0.0.0/0 path = /var/tmp ; necessary share for domain controller [netlogon] path = /media/array/netlogon guest ok = yes read only = yes write list = ntadmin browseable = no ; share for storing user profises [profile$] comment = Profile Data path = /media/array/profile read only = no create mask = 0660 directory mask = 0770 profile acls = yes ; oplocks = no ; level2 oplocks = no ; this stops w2k fucking up it's logon veto oplock files = /prf*.tmp/ ; veto files = /prf*.tmp/ ; delete veto files = yes csc policy = disable ; next line allows administrator to access all profiles force group = admins valid users = %U @"Domain Admins" ; share for global system data [system$] comment = Global System Data path = /media/array/system browseable = no read only = no create mode = 0700 directory mask = 0700 ; oplocks = no ; level2 oplocks = no map system = yes map hidden = yes map archive = yes ; valid users = %U @"Domain Admins" ; share for netboot [netmc$] comment = NetMC Administrative Share path = /media/array/netmc browseable = no read only = no create mode = 0760 directory mask = 0770 ; oplocks = no ; level2 oplocks = no map system = yes map hidden = yes map archive = yes ; valid users = %U @"Domain Admins" [it$] comment = IT Department Administrative Share path = /media/array/admin browseable = no read only = no create mode = 0760 directory mask = 0770 ; oplocks = no ; level2 oplocks = no map system = yes map hidden = yes map archive = yes ; home directories [homes] comment = Home Directory path = /media/array/home/%U browseable = no read only = no create mode = 0770 directory mask = 0770 ; oplocks = no ; level2 oplocks = no map system = yes map hidden = yes map archive = yes veto files = /test.tmp/ delete veto files = yes ; next line allows administrator to access all homes force group = admins valid users = %U @"Domain Admins" ; share all printers [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no ; Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print guest ok = no writable = yes printable = yes create mode = 0700 write list = root, @"Domain Admins" ; share printer driver [print$] comment = Printer Driver Download Area path = /media/array/drivers browseable = yes guest ok = yes read only = yes write list = root, @"Domain Admins" ; public share [public] path = /media/array/public browseable = yes guest ok = yes read only = no create mask = 0760 directory mask = 0770 ; oplocks = no ; level2 oplocks = no map system = yes map hidden = yes map archive = yes ; valid users = %U @"Domain Admins" ; sysvol share [SYSVOL] path = /media/array/sysvol browseable = yes guest ok = yes read only = yes create mask = 0760 directory mask = 0770 oplocks = no level2 oplocks = no map system = yes map hidden = yes map archive = yes -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba