Lars hit the problem head-on with my Samba abort.  The log file had grown to
over 5MB which caused smbd to stack-overflow.  Thanks to everyone for the
inputs.  Now if I can find time to play with it and figure out why file
copying hangs up, I'll report that as well.
  Don Inghram

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lars Appel [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 26, 1999 6:55 AM
> To:   Inghram, Don
> Subject:      Re: Samba aborts
>
> At 01:37 PM 6/25/99 -0600, you wrote:
> >I have Samba running but have never gotten it to be useful because...
>
> Just a wild guess (checking with your local HP RC might be a good idea),
> but is it possible that your /SAMBA/PUB/var/log.smb file has gotten very
> large? I vaguely recall having seen stack overflows or hangs in such case.
> Try stopping SMBD, rename or mv the log.smb away, and restart SMBD to get
> it start a fresh logfile. If log.smb is really large (eg MBytes), it might
> be a good idea to check (and reduce "debug level" in smb.conf to 0 or 1).
>
> Lars.
>
> (there is also a Samba patch SMBsomething regarding large logfiles)