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

[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 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 off.

It is a problem that Windows uses random hosts on the network as 
directory servers and then blames the problem on the host which is 
actually serving up the data (as if that host was lost) if that random 
directory server goes away.

This behavior seems like it would make dignosing issues more 
difficult.

Bob
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