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I have seen a weird problem in one of my clients. The reported that when issuing a smbmount command (both client and server are CentOS 4.4), it would take up to 30 second for the mount to complete.
To make a long history short, by using strace and the source, I noticed smbmnt is first calling mount() using ascii options for *data. Then that would timeout, and it would try again using a struct, finally working.
Looking at the source code, it will first try ascii if kernel >= 2.4, and fallback to struct if it doesn't work. So changing smbmnt.c to always using the struct first solved my problem. I also noticed that debian will always go first for the struct aproach.
Anyone seen this before ?
- -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 12:37:15 -0300 Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
I have seen a weird problem in one of my clients. The reported that when issuing a smbmount command (both client and server are CentOS 4.4), it would take up to 30 second for the mount to complete.
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Anyone seen this before ?
I have noticed this problem too.
For me, whether the delay occurs or not depends on which mount options I use. The behavior below has been 100% reproducible for me so far.
(My client is Centos 4.4, but the fileserver is running Win2003 SP1.)
This combination of options always takes 30 seconds to mount:
# date; mount -t smbfs //WINSERVER/TestShare /mnt/TestShare -o ro,ip=192.168.1.9,workgroup=TESTNET,username=guest,password=; date Sat Oct 14 06:49:54 EDT 2006 Sat Oct 14 06:50:24 EDT 2006
# umount /mnt/TestShare/
However, if I add certain extra options (e.g. nodev, dmask/fmask, etc) the delay vanishes:
# date; mount -t smbfs //WINSERVER/TestShare /mnt/TestShare -o ro,nodev,ip=192.168.1.9,workgroup=TESTNET,username=guest,password=; date Sat Oct 14 06:51:34 EDT 2006 Sat Oct 14 06:51:34 EDT 2006
# umount /mnt/TestShare/
# date; mount -t smbfs //WINSERVER/TestShare /mnt/TestShare -o ro,dmask=750,fmask=640,ip=192.168.1.9,workgroup=TESTNET,username=guest,password=; date Sat Oct 14 06:52:19 EDT 2006 Sat Oct 14 06:52:19 EDT 2006
# umount /mnt/TestShare/
Taking out those extra options, the delay returns:
# date; mount -t smbfs //WINSERVER/TestShare /mnt/TestShare -o ro,ip=192.168.1.9,workgroup=TESTNET,username=guest,password=; date Sat Oct 14 06:52:52 EDT 2006 Sat Oct 14 06:53:22 EDT 2006
# umount /mnt/TestShare/
I had assumed the problem had to be on the Windows side of things. :-)
Best Regards, PWR
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Rodrigo Barbosa