Bug 1037273

Summary:	please backport timeout option to samba
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan <sharuzzaman>
Component:	samba3x	Assignee:	Andreas Schneider <asn>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	5.11	CC:	asn, dpal, gdeschner, jherrman, rhack, sbose, sharuzzaman
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	samba3x-3.6.22-0.1.el5	Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	A timeout option has been added to the smbclient command line tool. This allows users to customize the timeout value for Samba file operations by using the "smbclient --help \| grep timeout" command.	Story Points:	---
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Clones:	1081539 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2014-09-16 00:26:45 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1081539

Description Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan 2013-12-03 03:49:26 UTC

Description of problem:
samba in RHEL5 did not have option to specify timeout. most guide on the internet will show how to hack the code to edit the timeout. the timeout is important in some condition, where the SMB server in Windows timeout (due to big file being scanned by antivirus). the timeout option will provide the opportunity to increase the timeout, thus resolving the issue. this issue dated back to 2003. see : http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/2003-10/msg00067.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
smbclient in RHEL 5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. transfer file using smbclient from windows machine
2. when the file is quite large, antivirus scanning will usually makes the transfer time out
3. see info at : http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/2003-10/msg00067.html

Actual results:
smb file transfer timeout after 20000 miliseconds

Expected results:
timeout is tunable

Additional info:
Info on timeout for backuppc: http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/2003-10/msg00067.html
Info on patches: http://anzwix.com/a/Samba/AddNewtimeoutCommandAndtOptionTo
patches by Samba team: https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commit;h=d9c88a56dc451be09e8c9fc9aa8857e312fcb444&utm_source=anzwix

Comment 1 Sumit Bose 2013-12-10 09:40:51 UTC

RHEL5 contains two different version of samba. A samba-3.0 based one with the package prefix samba and a samba-3.6 based one with the package prefix samba3x.

You filed this ticket against the older version. Is this intended or can the component be changed to samba3x?

Comment 2 Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan 2013-12-31 03:56:14 UTC

The customer is currently using samba-3.0 and is not planning to upgrade to samba-3.6.

Thus the patch should be going to samba-3.0

I also believe other people who are using samba-3.6 would appreciate the option in that version as well.

Comment 3 Dmitri Pal 2013-12-31 23:51:01 UTC

(In reply to Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan from comment #2)
> The customer is currently using samba-3.0 and is not planning to upgrade to
> samba-3.6.
> 
> Thus the patch should be going to samba-3.0
> 
> I also believe other people who are using samba-3.6 would appreciate the
> option in that version as well.

3.0 is a very old version.
The option will not be ported to that version. 
Keeping in mind the state of RHEL5 support the customer should consider upgrading to later version(s) of RHEL or at least switch to using samba3x package instead of samba.

Comment 4 Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan 2014-01-01 01:57:55 UTC

Understood.

I will propose the customer to upgrade to samba-3.6, with the intention to get the timeout option.

Appreciate if the timeout option could be applied to samba-3.6 soon.

Comment 5 Dmitri Pal 2014-01-02 14:52:44 UTC

Changing the component.

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2014-01-29 10:33:35 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product Management has
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for
potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release for currently
deployed products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in
a release.

Comment 7 Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan 2014-02-07 07:37:21 UTC

Hi,

Any estimates when the decision for the review can be known?

Thanks

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2014-09-16 00:26:45 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1212.html