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Old 03-27-2008, 11:40 AM   #1
mrkow
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Samba issues


I encounter two issues which I believe are seperate and only loosely related. Ubuntu Server 7.10. Samba 3.0.26a. Here's the two issues.

1. When copying files from the server to a Windows box the server doesn't free up its memory after the transfer. Using top it's plain that the memory usage is maxed out. The memory frees up when you unmount and remount the drive.

2. When copying files from a Windows box to the server all requests bring a "Path too deep" error.

I checked the installed packages to be sure the packages installed

Code:
~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep '[[:space:]]install$' | awk '{print $1}' | grep "samba"
samba
samba-common
samba-doc
Samba configuration is stock minus the configuration for the share:

Code:
[files]
comment = Files
guest ok = no
browseable = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0775
directory mask = 0775
path = /media/drive2/
valid users = billybob
Here's the mount:
Code:
~$ mount -l | grep hdb1
/dev/hdb1 on /media/drive2 type ext2 (rw) []
Yes, there really is a drive:
Code:
[   25.009402]     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xcb00-0xcb07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
[   25.700910] hdb: WDC WD5000AAJB-00YRA0, ATA DISK drive
[   27.561597] hdb: max request size: 512KiB
[   27.579454] hdb: 976773168 sectors (500107 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=60801/255/63, UDMA(66)
[   27.579603] hdb: cache flushes supported
[   27.579717]  hdb: hdb1
Last attempt to copy up to the server from Windows prompted these errors in the log.smbd, though I'm not sure if this is related...:
Code:
[2008/03/27 11:47:03, 0] printing/pcap.c:pcap_cache_reload(159)
  Unable to open printcap file /etc/printcap for read!
[2008/03/27 11:47:03, 0] printing/pcap.c:pcap_cache_reload(159)
  Unable to open printcap file /etc/printcap for read!


Any ideas?

Last edited by mrkow; 03-27-2008 at 11:57 AM. Reason: More information; aug
 
Old 03-30-2008, 07:54 AM   #2
taylorkh
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I wonder if this might be related to a Gnome bug I reported? http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518250 Any time I copied a LOT of files using Nautilus the process would complete then Nautilus would eat all available memory and swap. The good news is that this has been fixed in Gnome 2.22 which is available on the Ubuntu 8.0.4 beta.

I had not tried to copy the files with Samba, simply from a CD to the hard drive and from one drive to another. If you have some spare hardware available you might want to try the 8.0.4 beta and see if your problem goes away.

Regards,

Ken
 
Old 04-02-2008, 11:48 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by taylorkh
I wonder if this might be related to a Gnome bug I reported?
Quote:
Originally Posted by mrkow
Ubuntu Server 7.10. Samba 3.0.26a.
No xorg. No gnome.

Since this problem was a collegues in the first place he's moving on to another distro...so there's no problem anymore for me. Thanks for your input, taylorkh.
 
  


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