On 25 Oct 2001, Praise wrote:
Hi List,
I was using Samba 2.0.7, when I noticed a strange thing: when mounting samba shares on windows machines, if the window machine crashes while I am surfing the mounted FS my linux machine crashes too, completely.
So I updated it to Samba 2.2.1a. I havent checked if this behavior is changed yet (I had no time), but I am trying to install a big software package (300Mb) via network (I got a Linux Samba PDC). After a while the whole network freezes! (and the windows machine freezes too, or course). No ip packed is any more sent on the network after that. I got to run "ifconfig eth0 down - ifconfig eth0 up" to make it work again. This happens all the time.
My network is 10mbit, and during the process of installation gets VERY overloaded (lots of collisions). Unfortunately I have not enough money to upgrade. However nothing like this happens even if the network is overloaded.
I am using Suse Kernel 2.4.7, if it is important.
Hmm... I am using / have used Linux 2.4.4 - 2.4.12 on SuSE 7.2, samba versions 2.2.0 - 2.2.2 (I upgrade on a regular basis). I have never had this problem... Redundant: I can even burn a CD at 16X over my SuSE samba network. It seems it may be your network card combo. I'm using Dlink 530TX (?) cards in both the W2k machines and the SuSE 7.2 server. Also, you might wanna check / switch your hub... that might be it as well. Without running Samba, try ping flooding the windows machines [ ping -f a.b.c.d ]. Do you get a lot of loss? Try leaving it on for a couple of minutes... how about then? -- noodlez: Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 0x3A1446A0