Hi, I hope that this is the right list to post this to. Apologies if not – but any hints would be appreciated. We are seeing intermittent issues accessing shares that are exported by a Windows 2008R2 server and mounted on a Linux client OpenSuse 13.1 (kernel 3.11.10-21-desktop, samba-client-4.1.11-3.26.1.x86_64). The application level symptom is that files can neither be read nor written on a particular share. We have set cifsFYI=3 and we see a NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND in /var/log/messages when it happens (excerpt below). Normally the issue self-repairs within one minute. We have six linux clients accessing the same windows server – and when one of them has the issue, the others do not – so it looks like a client-side issue. We are seeing this issue in two separate data centers (with identical server configuration), so it is not likely to be hardware or network. The server exports approx 20 shares – and typically only one of them is affected at a time (but not always the same one). The network connection is a local 10GBit Ethernet connection. Across six clients, accessing ~20 shares (each), the issue occurs approximately 2-5 times per 24 hours (total across all servers and shares). The shares are mounted using autofs, but we have seen the same issue with static mounts. Here is the output of mount for one of them: //10.168.172.51/ImageRootFolder1 on /Storage/WINSERVER001/ImageRootFolder1 type cifs (rw,relatime,vers=1.0,cache=strict,username=xxx_username,domain=10.168.172. 51,uid=50000,forceuid,gid=100,forcegid,addr=10.168.172.51,file_mode=0755,di r_mode=0770,nounix,serverino,rsize=61440,wsize=65536,actimeo=1) We have added test code where the clients attempt to write and then read a test file onto each of the shares once per minute. If that fails the clients retry 20 times with 100ms pause. We found that if this fails, it continues to fail all 20 times. Below is /var/log/messages for two such failed attempts (file WRITE_0422.TEST) when the problem occurred: 2015-01-02T03:20:09.125669-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.134098] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/dir.c : name: \WRITE_0422.TEST 2015-01-02T03:20:09.125671-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.134107] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/trans port.c: For smb_command 6 2015-01-02T03:20:09.125672-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.134110] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/trans port.c: Sending smb: smb_len=72 2015-01-02T03:20:09.317001-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.325820] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/conne ct.c: RFC1002 header 0x23 2015-01-02T03:20:09.317020-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.325830] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/misc. c: checkSMB Length: 0x27, smb_buf_length: 0x23 2015-01-02T03:20:09.317024-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.325880] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/trans port.c: cifs_sync_mid_result: cmd=6 mid=50171 state=4 2015-01-02T03:20:09.317025-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.325889] Status code returned 0xc0000034 NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND 2015-01-02T03:20:09.317026-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.325895] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/netmi sc.c: Mapping smb error code 0xc0000034 to POSIX err -2 2015-01-02T03:20:09.317028-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.325900] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/cifss mb.c: Error in RMFile = -2 2015-01-02T03:20:09.317029-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.325905] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/inode .c: CIFS VFS: leaving cifs_unlink (xid = 1254639) rc = -2 2015-01-02T03:20:09.417642-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.426227] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/dir.c : CIFS VFS: in cifs_lookup as Xid: 1254640 with uid: 50000 2015-01-02T03:20:09.417660-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.426234] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/dir.c : parent inode = 0xffff881fdf56fb80 name is: WRITE_0422.TEST and dentry = 0xffff881faa406600 2015-01-02T03:20:09.417662-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.426239] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/dir.c : name: \WRITE_0422.TEST 2015-01-02T03:20:09.417664-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.426242] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/dir.c : NULL inode in lookup 2015-01-02T03:20:09.417665-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.426244] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/dir.c : Full path: \WRITE_0422.TEST inode = 0x (null) 2015-01-02T03:20:09.417666-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.426247] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/inode .c: Getting info on \WRITE_0422.TEST 2015-01-02T03:20:09.417668-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.426254] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/trans port.c: For smb_command 50 2015-01-02T03:20:09.417669-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.426257] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/trans port.c: Sending smb: smb_len=106 2015-01-02T03:20:09.417670-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.426683] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/conne ct.c: RFC1002 header 0x23 2015-01-02T03:20:09.417678-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.426705] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/misc. c: checkSMB Length: 0x27, smb_buf_length: 0x23 2015-01-02T03:20:09.417680-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.426709] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/smb1o ps.c: invalid transact2 word count 2015-01-02T03:20:09.418654-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.426760] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/trans port.c: cifs_sync_mid_result: cmd=50 mid=50172 state=4 2015-01-02T03:20:09.418673-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.426768] Status code returned 0xc0000034 NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND 2015-01-02T03:20:09.418675-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.426773] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/netmi sc.c: Mapping smb error code 0xc0000034 to POSIX err -2 2015-01-02T03:20:09.418677-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.426778] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/cifss mb.c: Send error in QPathInfo = -2 2015-01-02T03:20:09.418678-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.426785] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/dir.c : CIFS VFS: leaving cifs_lookup (xid = 1254640) rc = 0 2015-01-02T03:20:09.518641-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.527067] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/dir.c : CIFS VFS: in cifs_lookup as Xid: 1254641 with uid: 50000 2015-01-02T03:20:09.518658-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.527073] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/dir.c : parent inode = 0xffff881fdf56fb80 name is: WRITE_0422.TEST and dentry = 0xffff881ee12f5c00 2015-01-02T03:20:09.518660-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.527078] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/dir.c : name: \WRITE_0422.TEST 2015-01-02T03:20:09.518662-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.527080] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/dir.c : NULL inode in lookup 2015-01-02T03:20:09.518664-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.527083] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/dir.c : Full path: \WRITE_0422.TEST inode = 0x (null) 2015-01-02T03:20:09.518665-08:00 linclnt003 kernel: [2649336.527085] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.11.10/linux-3.11/fs/cifs/inode .c: Getting info on \WRITE_0422.TEST The respective section of cifs/DebugData is this: Display Internal CIFS Data Structures for Debugging --------------------------------------------------- CIFS Version 2.01 Features: dfs fscache lanman posix spnego xattr acl Active VFS Requests: 0 Servers: 1) entry for 172.16.107.135 not fully displayed TCP status: 1 Local Users To Server: 1 SecMode: 0x3 Req On Wire: 0 In Send: 0 In MaxReq Wait: 0 Shares: 1) \\172.16.107.135\FileInterface Mounts: 1 Type: NTFS DevInfo: 0x20 Attributes: 0xc500ef PathComponentMax: 255 Status: 0x1 type: DISK … 11) \\172.16.107.135\ImageRoot1 Mounts: 1 Type: NTFS DevInfo: 0x20 Attributes: 0xc500ff PathComponentMax: 255 Status: 0x1 type: DISK … (share 11 is the the one having the error this time). 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