[webmin-l] Samba mount retry errors

[Steve C. <cam...@cn...>]

I have not used Samba before in any form. I have just received a Buffalo 
Terabyte NAS and have it running pretty well. I am using webmin to make the 
mounts on my Tao 1 Update 6 machines.

There appears to be a sleep mode or something associated with this mount, as 
whenever a machine with this mount on it is used, I get the following errors 
on the console and/or in my message log and then a small wait period :

Nov 16 16:13:54 cnbackup1 kernel: smb_get_length: recv error = 5
Nov 16 16:13:54 cnbackup1 kernel: smb_request: result -5, setting invalid
Nov 16 16:13:54 cnbackup1 mount.smbfs[1532]: [2005/11/16 16:13:54, 0] 
tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
Nov 16 16:13:54 cnbackup1 mount.smbfs[1532]: 
tdb(/var/cache/samba/gencache.tdb): tdb_lock failed on list 62 ltype=0 (Bad 
file descriptor)
Nov 16 16:13:54 cnbackup1 mount.smbfs[1532]: [2005/11/16 16:13:54, 0] 
tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
Nov 16 16:13:54 cnbackup1 mount.smbfs[1532]: 
tdb(/var/cache/samba/gencache.tdb):
tdb_lock failed on list 62 ltype=1 (Bad file descriptor)
Nov 16 16:13:54 cnbackup1 mount.smbfs[1532]: [2005/11/16 16:13:54, 0] 
tdb/tdbutil.
c:tdb_log(725)
Nov 16 16:13:54 cnbackup1 mount.smbfs[1532]: 
tdb(/var/cache/samba/gencache.tdb):
 tdb_lock failed on list 62 ltype=1 (Bad file descriptor)
Nov 16 16:14:04 cnbackup1 kernel: smb_retry: successful, new pid=1532, 
generation=4

All is fine after the last retry succeeds. The kernel is 2.4.21-37, BTW.

Is there something I should be setting up somewhere to avoid this latency 
problem, or is this normal for Samba mounts?

The mount command shows:

//trigabyte.cnpapers.net/mondo on /trigabyte type smbfs (0)

I have heard that smbfs does not work on the Tao 4 machines elsewhere, and 
wonder if this is similar on Update 6.

Just wondering if anyone has experience using webmin on the flavor of 
everything mentioned, or know a fix in general.

Thanks.

Steve Campbell
cam...@cn...
Charleston Newspapers