Greetings,
I am having a problem getting Samba 2.0.3 running on _one_ Compaq
Alpha 2100 w/ V4.0DPK1 on it. This system, named jeeves, is currently
running Samba 1.9.16p11 which has been rock-solid for us.
Building and installing 2.0.3 went fine, but when I tried to access jeeves
via smbclient on my Linux workstation for testing I got the following error:
$ smbclient -L jeeves
Added interface ip=157.98.X.YYY bcast=157.98.15.255 nmask=255.255.248.0
Invalid packet length! (90997 bytes).
This command works perfectly when jeeves is running the 1.9.16p11
binaries.
I then installed 2.0.3 on another Alpha 2100 also running V4.0DPK1 and
it worked perfectly! 2.0.3 also runs fine on two Alpha 4100's running
V4.0B.
Compiled 2.0.3 with the native cc compiler instead of gcc 2.8.1: same
error response
Copied binaries from other 2100 to jeeves: still the same error response
I then started digging around in dejanews and the web archives. and
found one report of a similar problem corrected by swapping out the
ethernet card in the server. We are running DEC DE500 NICs in the
servers I'm working on. Checking chip and revision numbers revealed
that jeeves and one of the Alpha 4100's (where samba 2.0.3 works!)
have identical cards, including chip and revision numbers.
Jeeves is our main web server so I am reluctant to take it down just
to swap out the ethernet card on the off-chance it may fix the problem
based on 1 unsubstantiated report.
Has anyone else seen this kind of problem? Could the DE500 in jeeves
be subtly broken such that Samba 2.0.3 is the only network service
affected?
Thanks,
--[Lance Brown]
Received on Wed Mar 17 1999 - 15:50:06 NZDT