[cifs-discuss] Strange traffic going on when browsing a share

2010-04-13 Thread Kasper Bræmer-Jensen
Hi, First post here, but I've been lurking zfs-discuss the past 3 months. I'm having a very strange problem with one of my CIFS shares. Other shares are working just perfectly. When I browse my share from a Windows XP (x64, latest SP and updates), i instantly see some very odd traffic that star

[cifs-discuss] SMB2/2.1 vs SMB

2010-04-13 Thread charles
Is there SMB2 or 2.1 on the horizon as this is meant to be much better than SMB? It only has 19 commands rather than over 100 in SMB -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ cifs-discuss mailing list cifs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.op

Re: [cifs-discuss] Strange traffic going on when browsing a share

2010-04-13 Thread joyce mcintosh
These are change notification messages to Explorer to tell it that something has changed and it needs to refresh. They should occur when, for example, a new file is created. Explorer requests such notifications. When you shut down Explorer it stops requesting these notifications and hence you stop

Re: [cifs-discuss] SMB2/2.1 vs SMB

2010-04-13 Thread Alan Wright
On 04/13/10 06:39 AM, charles wrote: Is there SMB2 or 2.1 on the horizon as this is meant to be much better than SMB? It only has 19 commands rather than over 100 in SMB Yes, it is on the horizon. Better is a relative thing. Unless you are encountering a limit or experiencing a problem wi

Re: [cifs-discuss] Strange traffic going on when browsing a share

2010-04-13 Thread Kasper Bræmer-Jensen
Hi Joyce, Thanks for your reply. On Apr 13, 2010, at 7:39 PM, joyce mcintosh wrote: > These are change notification messages to Explorer to tell it that > something has changed and it needs to refresh. They should occur > when, for example, a new file is created. Explorer requests such > noti

[cifs-discuss] Fwd: Re: Strange traffic going on when browsing a share

2010-04-13 Thread joyce mcintosh
Original Message Subject:Re: [cifs-discuss] Strange traffic going on when browsing a share Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:56:41 -0700 From: joyce mcintosh Reply-To: joyce.mcint...@oracle.com To: Kasper Bræmer-Jensen On 04/13/10 11:37 AM, Kasper Bræmer-Jen

Re: [cifs-discuss] Fwd: Re: Strange traffic going on when browsing a share

2010-04-13 Thread Kasper Bræmer-Jensen
Hi Joyce, On Apr 13, 2010, at 10:21 PM, joyce mcintosh wrote: > On 04/13/10 11:37 AM, Kasper Bræmer-Jensen wrote: >> >> Hi Joyce, >> >> Thanks for your reply. >> >> On Apr 13, 2010, at 7:39 PM, joyce mcintosh wrote: >> >>> These are change notification messages to Explorer to tell it that >>>

Re: [cifs-discuss] Fwd: Re: Strange traffic going on when browsing a share

2010-04-13 Thread joyce mcintosh
Can you provide a binary network packet capture of the traffic that you are seeing. Can you also provide the output from running cifs-gendiag, available here: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/cifs-server/files/cifs-gendiag Thanks Joyce On 04/13/10 04:02 PM, Kasper Bræmer-Jensen wrote: Are yo

Re: [cifs-discuss] Fwd: Re: Strange traffic going on when browsing a share

2010-04-13 Thread Kasper Bræmer-Jensen
Hi Joyce, Please see these two files: http://kapsel.dk/asdf/capture.pcap.zip and: http://kapsel.dk/asdf/cifs-diag.txt I only saved a smaller bunch of packets, if you want more, I'll send you the full file. Same with the cifs-diag.txt, I did censor it a bit, and removed more sensitive informati