Howard Jones wrote: > A colleague is working with a Samba installation where Windows clients > are accessing the server over a VPN. They are seeing an issue where a > share is visible, but if a directory contains more than 8 files, they > get an error. > > The VPN is set to allow everything in both directions. Windows->Window > sharing does work OK across the link, as do other large file transfers > (NFS, FTP). The Samba connections work OK locally, and if the firewalls > are replaced with a router (the two 'sites' were original local for > testing), then the problem goes away. However, the firewall policy > doesn't limit anything (and wouldn't it break Windows too?) > Just for the archive, the final solution appears to be the following config in the netscreens to enable path MTU discovery, and alter the maximum segment size for VPNs: set flow path-mtu set flow tcp-mss 1452
I'm still unclear on why this affects the samba session but not the windows->windows session, or FTP, or NFS, but there you are. Howie -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
