>At some point the machine crashes with an entry >as above and the only way to recover is to do a >hard shutdown (ouch!)
Since it is a multiprocessor industry-grade server you are using, my tip might be irrelevant for your case but here we go anyways: smbd activities crashed my Siemens-Fujitsu P4/2GHz i845 chipset reliably though at unpredictable intervals between a couple of hours and a full day and a half until I reinstalled my SuSE 8.1 on a SCSI disk. The IDE DMA in some chipsets has a quirk which is not properly accounted for, in kernel 2.4.19 for example, leading instead to kernel panic and system freeze (sometimes caps-lock and scroll-lock LEDs blink when it happens but not always). If your system disk is SCSI to begin with then you can ignore my posting. _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
