On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 09:34:44AM +1000, Ron Daniel wrote: > > We have a department using a DOS based application (written in C) within an > MS window. By this I mean that the application is text based, and has no > mouse capabilities at all. > > The application object code and its database all reside in a departmental > share on our Samba instance on a Solaris box. We have about 30 people using > the samba shares on this box at any time. > > The users have sent me an email in which they say : > > "We are experiencing increasing 'crashes' with app-name. I believe it is > because of time-out's to the server. Appname is not very tolerant in waiting > for data to be written or retrieved from the server and will crash. (being a > DOS based product) " > > I have no more information about the crashes. I need to know : > > 1) What to look at when the application "crashes" > 2) Are there configuration settings which I can make to boost the ability of > Samba to have more open files per user and more open files in total. > 3) What things I could look at on the file sharing and locking front. I > suspect this is where the problem might lie.
I'd start by upgrading to 3.0.23a and trying to reproduce the problem - that's the latest released code. At that point you're on the same page as the development team. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
