[wellylug] Samba Issue

[Tim Thomson]

I've noticed things can get confused if there is something talking on
private addresses that can't be reached.

I had a machine with a couple of VMWare interfaces that would broadcast
on the addresses set up for vmware on the local network. Possibly this
screwed things up?
I stopped the machine in question broadcasting, and also specified a
REJECT rule on the gateway for outgoing RFC 1918 addresses. This seems
to have resolved the issue.

I'd definately put an egress rule in on your firewall anyway, as private
stuff shouldn't be leaking out, plus it can speed things up (as can
setting up reverse DNS for RFC 1918 addresses, whether in use or not).

Cheers,

Tim.


On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 01:30:37AM -0700, Ian Sterling wrote:
> I have a problem with this from time to time with my windows machines
> trying to run files (mostly self-extracting installers and the like)
> on my samba shares.  At the same time I could be doing stuff over nfs,
> and playing mp3s from another share and everything would be fine.  No
> idea what causes this.  It usually takes about 35 seconds or so before
> everything's working fine again.  No idea what causes it.  Buf if
> anybody knows, I'm willing to learn!
> 
> --Ian...
> 
> On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 21:24:49 +1300, Chris Hodgetts <chris at archnetnz.com> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this and can help..
> > 
> > I have a couple of Samba shares on a machine for the single Windows
> > machine on my home network, and just within the last two weeks..
> > 
> > When ever you try and access the share on both Linux and Windows it
> > stalls the application trying to access them..
> > 
> > EG: Nautilus stalls when you try to open a file, or try to get the file
> > properties - likewise with Exploiter or Open Office...
> > 
> > I have this in my smb.conf file:
> > socket options = TCP_NODELAY
> > 
> > I understand this improves performance on the connection - however I
> > cant see anything else in there that would cause this issue.
> > 
> > It happens on all Shares and on all clients...
> > 
> > Thanks in advance :)
> > 
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