On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 08:16:46PM -0600, Steve French wrote: >> I am more worried about firewall rule changes and similar events >> than about broken servers - but the idea of waiting forever on stat >> to a server that is never going to respond seems odd. > > That would be a strange fw rule that allows SMBEcho but not > other SMB requests. I think if someone puts up such a silly > rule, some pain is deserved :-) Aaah - remember the proxies that cut out "chatty" smb traffic by responding on behalf of remote servers in the interest of optimizing traffic over slow links :) -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
