Is Samba stalling?

[mpjbrennan]

I recently installed Samba 2.2.7 on a linuxbox running RH7.3 which is linked to a winbox running Windows ME. Both boxes can ping each other by IP and name, and the winbox can see the linuxbox - but can't access it. Both boxes are running identical user names and passwords, and a samba user has been set up with the same name and pw. Whe I checked the samba log I found some entries which suggest to me that the server may be firing up and then dying. Could someone in the know please comment. An extract is given below:

patrick
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[2002/12/13 20:49:20, 0] smbd/server.c:main(707)
smbd version 2.2.7 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2002
[2002/12/13 20:49:20, 1] lib/debug.c:debug_message(256)
INFO: Debug class all level = 3 (pid 1506 from pid 1506)
[2002/12/13 20:49:20, 2] param/loadparm.c:do_section(3055)
Processing section "[test]"
[2002/12/13 20:49:20, 2] param/loadparm.c:do_section(3055)
Processing section "[patrick]"
[2002/12/13 20:49:20, 3] param/loadparm.c:lp_add_ipc(2023)
adding IPC service IPC$
[2002/12/13 20:49:20, 3] param/loadparm.c:lp_add_ipc(2023)
adding IPC service ADMIN$
[2002/12/13 20:49:20, 2] lib/interface.c:add_interface(81)
added interface ip=192.168.0.2 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
[2002/12/13 20:49:20, 3] smbd/server.c:main(747)
loaded services
[2002/12/13 20:49:20, 3] smbd/server.c:main(762)
Becoming a daemon.
[2002/12/13 20:49:20, 3] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(813)
bind succeeded on port 139
[2002/12/13 20:49:20, 2] smbd/server.c:open_sockets(215)
waiting for a connection
[2002/12/13 20:49:23, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1211)
open_oplock_ipc: opening loopback UDP socket.
[2002/12/13 20:49:23, 3] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(813)
bind succeeded on port 0
[2002/12/13 20:49:23, 3] smbd/oplock_linux.c:linux_init_kernel_oplocks(298)
Linux kernel oplocks enabled
[2002/12/13 20:49:23, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1241)
open_oplock ipc: pid = 1508, global_oplock_port = 32773
[2002/12/13 20:49:23, 3] smbd/process.c:timeout_processing(1098)
end of file from client
[2002/12/13 20:49:23, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(328)
setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
[2002/12/13 20:49:23, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(461)
Closing connections
[2002/12/13 20:49:23, 3] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(48)
Yielding connection to
[2002/12/13 20:49:23, 3] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(61)
yield_connection: tdb_delete for name failed with error Record does not exist.
[2002/12/13 20:49:23, 3] smbd/server.c:exit_server(495)
Server exit (normal exit)
[2002/12/13 20:49:24, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1211)
open_oplock_ipc: opening loopback UDP socket.
[2002/12/13 20:49:24, 3] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(813)
bind succeeded on port 0
[2002/12/13 20:49:24, 3] smbd/oplock_linux.c:linux_init_kernel_oplocks(298)
Linux kernel oplocks enabled
[2002/12/13 20:49:24, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1241)
open_oplock ipc: pid = 1509, global_oplock_port = 32773
[2002/12/13 20:49:24, 3] smbd/process.c:timeout_processing(1098)
end of file from client
[2002/12/13 20:49:24, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(328)
setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
[2002/12/13 20:49:24, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(461)
Closing connections
[2002/12/13 20:49:24, 3] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(48)
Yielding connection to
[2002/12/13 20:49:24, 3] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(61)
yield_connection: tdb_delete for name failed with error Record does not exist.
[2002/12/13 20:49:24, 3] smbd/server.c:exit_server(495)
Server exit (normal exit)
[2002/12/13 20:49:30, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1211)
open_oplock_ipc: opening loopback UDP socket.
[2002/12/13 20:49:30, 3] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(813)
bind succeeded on port 0
[2002/12/13 20:49:30, 3] smbd/oplock_linux.c:linux_init_kernel_oplocks(298)
Linux kernel oplocks enabled
[2002/12/13 20:49:30, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1241)
open_oplock ipc: pid = 1515, global_oplock_port = 32774
[2002/12/13 20:49:31, 3] smbd/process.c:timeout_processing(1098)
end of file from client
[2002/12/13 20:49:31, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(328)
setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
[2002/12/13 20:49:31, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(461)
Closing connections
[2002/12/13 20:49:31, 3] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(48)
Yielding connection to
[2002/12/13 20:49:31, 3] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(61)
yield_connection: tdb_delete for name failed with error Record does not exist.
[2002/12/13 20:49:31, 3] smbd/server.c:exit_server(495)
Server exit (normal exit)
[2002/12/13 20:49:31, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1211)
open_oplock_ipc: opening loopback UDP socket.
[2002/12/13 20:49:31, 3] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(813)
bind succeeded on port 0
[2002/12/13 20:49:31, 3] smbd/oplock_linux.c:linux_init_kernel_oplocks(298)
Linux kernel oplocks enabled
[2002/12/13 20:49:31, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1241)
open_oplock ipc: pid = 1516, global_oplock_port = 32774
[2002/12/13 20:49:31, 3] smbd/process.c:timeout_processing(1098)
end of file from client
[2002/12/13 20:49:31, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(328)
setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
[2002/12/13 20:49:31, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(461)
Closing connections
[2002/12/13 20:49:31, 3] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(48)
Yielding connection to
[2002/12/13 20:49:31, 3] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(61)
yield_connection: tdb_delete for name failed with error Record does not exist.
[2002/12/13 20:49:31, 3] smbd/server.c:exit_server(495)
Server exit (normal exit)

[mpjbrennan]

Fixed it! Samba was still running so the messages in the log file must be OK.

My problem turned out to be the Red Hat 7.3 firewall - it was blocking all traffic on eth0. Once that log jam was removed everything works fine and I am really impressed with Samba.

Thanks to all who helped me during the past few days to get my win- and lin- boxes sharing data. Another step down the route of switching totally to Linux.

patrick