Max users/processes in Samba

[Dave Aalbertsberg]

I put Samba 2.2.2 on one of my HPUX11 servers over the weekend, everything works great except..... After about an hour or so I start getting complaints about not being able to access the server. For now if I Kill the process and restart them everybody is fine for another hour or so.

I downloaded the file samba-2.2.2-hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.00.tar.gz from Samba's web site and it is already configured, so im thinking there must be a switch or something I am missing.

Once again thanks in advance :-)

DaveAA2

[harry d brown jr]

What's the error message they are receiving, and do you have glance installed on your HPux 11i box?

live free or die
harry

[S.K. Chan]

At the point when it hangs, look at file /var/opt/samba/log.smb to see if you can spot any useful error message. Also you might want to check for the maximum open file limit set in smb.conf file. I think default is 5000, you don't have that many files open at one time do you ?

[Dave Aalbertsberg]

Harry,
Im not sure of the exact error message other than the users cannot save there files or access the file system. I don't have glance installed on the system ( Excuse my ignorance but I'm not familiar with glance).

Chan,
I have attached a piece of my log file below, It looks like a lock problem or something. Strange but I wasent getting any log files either until I changed group on the /var/opt/samba dir from sys to root then it started working (I think the max open file limit is set to 10000, and no I dont think so).

[2002/02/04 12:36:39, 0] smbd/service.c:(370)
daveaa logged in as admin user (root privileges)
[2002/02/04 12:40:27, 0] smbd/nttrans.c:(1762)
call_nt_transact_ioctl: Currently not implemented.
[2002/02/04 12:55:16, 0] printing/nt_printing.c:(258)
nt_printing_init: Failed to open nt forms database /var/spool/locks/ntforms.tdb (No locks available)

As always thanks for the swwwwwwwwwift response :-)

DaveAA2
PS I also piped testparm to a file which is attached.

[MARREEL Chris_1]

what was the actual solution for this problem ? I'm experiencing the same at the moment, version of SAMBA is 2.2.3a.

Keep me informed,
Thanks,
Chris MARREEL

[Dave Aalbertsberg]

The solution for me was to go back to a version I knew worked, which was 2.0.9. I was able to get an already compiled binary from HP...

I hope this helps...

DaveAA2