Greetings, I have a samba server deployed. The machine has these: cpu: amd64 -4 cores motherboard :GA-990XA-UD3 with 6 sata ports and StarTech 2 Port SATA 6Gbps PCIe SATA Card memory: 16GBytes disks: raid 10 (6 disks) os: cblfs/linux kernel-3.1.5 pure 64bit and samba-3.6.0
The machine in deployed as a data-storage-device for windows7-based machines doing 3d graphics rendering using 3d-StudioMax. There are 8 client machines with plans to expand this to ~20. The rendering machins do frequent writes and reads to the samba server which also runs linux software raid (RAID10). The smb.conf has these: [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP netbios name = WHATEVER server string = Samba %v on (%L) encrypt passwords = True security = user smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd log file = /var/log/sambaUSER-log.%m socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127. host deny = 0.0.0.0/0 interfaces = eth* lo bind interfaces only = yes dos charset = cp850 unix charset = ISO-8859-1 load printers = yes max log size = 50 local master = yes printing = cups guest account = guest os level = 99 dns proxy = no wins support = yes #[ipc$] # hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/24 127.0.0.1 # hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0 [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = no browseable = no [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = yes guest ok = yes printable = yes browseable = yes writable = no create mask = 0700 public = yes there is no firewall yet It is a new setup and the server is crashing daily. We do not know the cause of the crashes but here are some unusual ways the server us currently used: --a) because of work pressures 8 users are logged in with the same name to write to a publically accessible share. Could is be the cause of the crashes? --b) Could there be a mismatch of sata types as the startech sata card though rated as the same 6Gbps transfer speed as motherbard-integrated raid , is a different asic AND IF SO could this be causing the problems? --c)Are there settings in smb.conf which can increase the data-transferred rate vin the eternet ( bonding NIC's for example) and if so how so. Advice would be much appreciated. sincerely lux-integ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba