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

[John McEntee]

> 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.


If you are using samba then there is configuration you can add to stop your
problem in the smb.conf file, you can increase the os level to 99 just to
make sure. 

[global]
domain master = yes
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
os level = 65


The inbuilt kernel CIFS server only does file sharing and therefore cannot
be a master browser hence your windows 7 machine will be it. The solution it
to either, 1) live with the problem. 2) use samba instead. 3) run a virtual
machine on the Solaris system to be the browser master.

John


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