On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:01:57PM +0200, Niko Neufeld wrote: > Hi, > > We are running a RHEL4 x86_64 server, samba-3.0.25b-1.el4_6.4. The server is > running with essentially the same configuration since a year without > problems. Due to a hardware failure on the back-end SAN the samba-server was > moved to a different machine (same OS, same samba version, same config). At > about the same time we deployed SP2 on various W2300 machines (there are in > total about 50 W2003 clients and about 20 WXP). Since then we observe the > following reproducible phenomenon: > Copying a file from the W2003 client to a samba share will cause the Windows > machine to crash, when the following conditions are met > 1) SP2 is installed (this is the onlly necessary condition) > 2) The file is sufficiently large (> 50 MB) (the larger file the more likely > the crash) > 3) During or shortly after the copy, file properties are accessed (e.g. from > the Windows explorer) > 4) Sometimes the file copy / property access has to be retried a few times > > The Windows crash-dumps hint to a corruption in netbd, but the crashes are > not uniform, sometimes there is no BSOD but the machine is frozen. > > Removing SP2 solves the problem.
This looks like a Microsoft bug in SP2. Have you reported it to them ? They are much more proactive in working with us now so it might be worth reporting it and letting them work it out with us. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
