[OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS domain controller "not responding" errors

[Gordon Ross]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Bryan S. Leaman <leaman at bitbytes.com> wrote:
> I have a CIFS share set up on oi_151a, and it's working fine except that
> during times of sustained activity I get the following errors in
> /var/adm/messages frequently, every 3 to 5 minutes.  I also noticed that if
> I keep the share idle for awhile, then run a "dir" from a mapped client, it
> hangs for 5 to 10 seconds and when it displays the directory listing I get
> the same set of errors in /var/adm/messages.  After this happens once, then
> it's fine for some time with no delay on the client side.
>
> Sep 29 14:14:23 oi151dev nsmb: [ID 176748 kern.notice] SMB server dc01 not
> responding
> Sep 29 14:14:23 oi151dev nsmb: [ID 350600 kern.notice] SMB server dc01 OK
> Sep 29 14:19:07 oi151dev nsmb: [ID 176748 kern.notice] SMB server dc01 not
> responding
> Sep 29 14:19:07 oi151dev nsmb: [ID 350600 kern.notice] SMB server dc01 OK
> Sep 29 14:24:38 oi151dev nsmb: [ID 176748 kern.notice] SMB server dc01 not
> responding
> Sep 29 14:24:38 oi151dev nsmb: [ID 350600 kern.notice] SMB server dc01 OK
>
> I've copied hundreds of gigs of data to this share with robocopy without any
> failures on the client side, but something seems to be broken somewhere.
>  Any ideas?
>
> Bryan

That noise is nothing to worry about.  It's the SMB client (nsmb is a
helper for smbfs)
complaining that the SMB server has not sent it any responses in 15
seconds or so.
Perhaps that timer should be longer...  Or you need a faster server:)

Gordon