>>>> I might have unwittingly made the impression that the problem only came >>>> with 3.0.20. >>>> The same problem was present in 3.0.14 as well as 3.0.4. It's a very >>>> intermittent >>>> problem which has been haunting me for months now. >>> Then it's not this particular bug. >> >> No, it ain't. There's a dangling *.ldb file there write now. But now there >> are 2 PIDs >> listed as holding the *.MDB file open with "DENY_DOS" and "RDWR" sharing >> both with the >> same timestamp "Fri Oct 14 19:58:09 2005", whereas formerly it used to be >> only one open >> of *.mdb and one of *.ldb file. The *.ldb file was opened "RDONLY" about 10 >> minutes >> earlier by one of the 2 contestants. Can I do some more forensic on the logs? > > Ok, if you can reproduce this bug with 3.0.20b then refresh me with the > problem > and then let's look at it closer.
Yes. Of course. I've just compiled and installed 3.0.20b and set a watchdog to observe it. I was thinking of adding a repair action to the watchdog script that would identify the smbd PID keeping the *.ldb MS Access DB lock file open for so long and kill it, but the command "net rpc file" never lists what I can easily see on the status page of SWAT if I continuously refresh it until by chance one of the clients opens it. The "net rpc file only lists "0 \PIPE\samr 0x35 0 dummy user all the time. Is there another CLI utility which lists the same thing as SWAT does? Regards Dragan PS.: I've severely edited the verbosity of a samba log for the previous incident, so that the MS Access rain-dance can easily be followed to the point where the offending client for some reason reopens the lock file after once successfully opening it with numopen=1, meaning that nobody else claims it until he reopens it, when numopen increments to =2 for obvious readons, and then never remembers to close it the same number of times. It might be one of those MS tricks to scare the users off Samba? Would you like to take a look at it, if I send it to you off-samba-list? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba