I have two network-based laptops, one with Windows XP, the other with Windows 7, on which I have installed WD Anywhere and which are backing up for the first time to my newly purchased 4 TB WD Sharespace.
After a random interval, the shares go offline. Disconnecting and reconnecting them with “net ue” fails. When this happens, one can’t use the web GUI to read the CIFS log. If one is connected with ssh, trying to look at smbd.log under /var/log/smbd also hangs. The unit no longer appears to respond to the power button and trying to use the web GUI to shutdown or restart the box also fails. Until I learned how to use ssh, the only way I could “fix” this was to disconnect and reconnect the power.
However, with ssh, I can see a bunch of smbd processes when the box exhibits this behavior:
1149 root 3188 S /usr/sbin/smbd -D
1293 James 3836 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
1711 root 3748 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2226 Deborah 3808 S /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2325 root 3300 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2326 James 3580 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2327 Deborah 3576 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2394 James 3588 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2460 James 3584 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2527 James 3588 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2529 Deborah 3580 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2595 James 3584 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2596 Deborah 3572 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2661 James 3588 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2662 Deborah 3584 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2727 James 3580 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2728 Deborah 3572 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2793 James 3584 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2858 Deborah 3572 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2859 James 3592 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2924 Deborah 3576 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2925 James 3584 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2990 Deborah 3580 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2991 root 3212 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
2992 James 3580 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3089 James 3584 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3090 Deborah 3568 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3155 James 3588 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3156 Deborah 3580 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3222 James 3588 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3223 Deborah 3584 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3288 James 3592 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3289 Deborah 3584 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3354 James 3592 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3419 Deborah 3580 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3420 James 3584 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3568 Deborah 3576 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3569 James 3592 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3635 Deborah 3584 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3636 James 3584 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3765 root 3464 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3766 James 3592 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3832 root 3300 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3833 James 3588 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3834 Deborah 3596 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3899 James 3584 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
3966 James 3580 D /usr/sbin/smbd -D
I’m not sure what’s up, but stopping and starting smbd seems to fix it, for a while.
Has anyone else seen this? Is there anything that can be done?
