[OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-06-12 Thread John McEntee
I am having problems with a openindiana storage server I have built am I am trying to track down the cause to fix it. The current symptoms are seen from all windows clients (both 7 and XP) that will report an error stating. Path File is not accessible. The specified network name is no longer a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-06-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, John McEntee wrote: I am having problems with a openindiana storage server I have built am I am trying to track down the cause to fix it. The current symptoms are seen from all windows clients (both 7 and XP) that will report an error stating. Path File is not accessible. T

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-06-12 Thread Robbie Crash
I had similar issues before I enabled TLER, and disabled the head parking on my WD Green drives. A quick Google shows some evidence of similar features on the 3TB Hitachis. On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, John McEntee

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-06-13 Thread John McEntee
> The first thing to verify is your network and network interface. Run continuous traffic and see if there are any hickups. > You can use /usr/sbin/ping for testing with larger packets. > > Also check the log files under /var/adm and /var/log. Also check output of 'fmadm -ev' and 'fmadm faulty'

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-06-13 Thread John McEntee
> I had similar issues before I enabled TLER, and disabled the head parking on my WD Green drives. A quick Google shows some evidence of similar features on the 3TB Hitachis. I chose Hitachi because I didn't think they had this "feature". I would have thought ZFS would have reported errors and rem

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-06-13 Thread Gordon Ross
Have you done a snoop (or wireshark) capture to see what the box is doing during the pause? It's possible that it's trying to talk to an AD server... On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:52 AM, John McEntee wrote: > I am having problems with a openindiana storage server I have built am I am > trying to trac

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-06-28 Thread John McEntee
Ok, and update on my progress as I have not fixed it yet. The domain controller the OpenIndiana server is connected to had problems with the file replication, I cleared the cache and it fixed that problem. The occurrence of the CIFS server on OpenIndiana dropped dramatically, but still exist. I f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-06-28 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-06-28 17:57, John McEntee wrote: What I have noticed is an ulimit -a returns core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited file size (blocks, -f) unlimited open files (-n) 256 pipe size(512 bytes,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-06-28 Thread James Carlson
John McEntee wrote: > Is the open files going to cause CIFS a problem, 256 seems a bit low, could > easily hit that limit if it is shared amongst all the users. "man ulimit" and "man getrlimit" for details. That's a limit on the number of file descriptors open in any one user process. It has not

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-06-28 Thread Gordon Ross
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:57 AM, John McEntee wrote: > Ok, and update on my progress as I have not fixed it yet. > [...] > > I also have 2 scripts running every minute via cron (from a linux box). One > copies a 10 MB file via cifs the other via nfs, neither have been delayed > for more than 5 sec

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-07-05 Thread John McEntee
> You'll need to gather some data when the slowdown happens. > I would start at the network with a snoop capture that shows both the clients involved and the AD server in use. > > There are some cases where the SMB server currently needs to go talk to an AD server to find out the name for the acc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-07-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, John McEntee wrote: I have had the suggestion of moving the samba as a more known quantity and better logging. At least then I can see if my high kernel usage (60%) is reduced or not. On my home network I observed that when I turned a Windows XP host off a Windows 7 host d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-07-05 Thread Mike La Spina
torms. -Original Message- From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 11:12 AM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs. On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, John McEntee wrote: > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-07-06 Thread John McEntee
> On my home network I observed that when I turned a Windows XP host off a Windows 7 host declared that it lost access to the Samba service hosted from a Solaris 10 system. It was then able to reconnect to the Samba service on that Solaris 10 system even though the Windows XP host remained turned

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-07-09 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-07-06 13:41, John McEntee пишет: The inbuilt kernel CIFS server only does file sharing and therefore cannot be a master browser hence your windows 7 machine will be it. The solution is to either, 1) live with the problem. 2) use samba instead. 3) run a virtual machine on the Solaris system t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-08-02 Thread John McEntee
I have an update on my running CIFS and windows saga. Getting samba installed and joined to the domain is a challenge and a half, and is still not authenticating (trying on a test server). What I have done is stop using a dns alias to connect to the OpenIndiana server. So whereas before I was usi