NAS CIFS share problems

[cynicuk]

Hello there,

I have just switched over to using the 7800DXL from my Netgear and impressed so far but I have one issue.

I have a Ubuntu server upstairs that mounts a CIFS share on a NAS that is downstairs - upstairs/downstairs is connected via a wireless bridge to the router, the NAS is hard wired into the router. Since switching to the 7800DXL I can mount the CIFS share ok but I am getting constant timeout errors in the Ubuntu syslog and writing anything to it times out.

Example Ubuntu errors :

[ 202.632127] CIFS VFS: Error -11 sending data on socket to server
[ 217.648039] CIFS VFS: sends on sock ffff8801a07d5680 stuck for 15 seconds

The timings also coincide with these errors written to the router log constantly:

Apr 2 18:15:16 daemon warn kernel: Error : chain idx 2 is not in use or invalid handle 0x0
Apr 2 18:15:17 daemon warn kernel: Error : chain idx 2 is not in use or invalid handle 0x0
Apr 2 18:15:31 daemon warn kernel: Error : chain idx 2 is not in use or invalid handle 0x0

When I unmounted the CIFS share the router errors stopped.

Any ideas ? Any settings I have missed ?

Thanks,

Dave

[cynicuk]

Update:

So I gave up with mounting a share and tried ftp direct to the NAS - same issue, connects and then hangs when transferring a file.

[kidhazy]

Dusting off an old post here - but this is the only reference I find (apart from my own forum entries) about the same error message.

I'm trying to share files to a Windows 7 laptop connected via a WiFi Guest/Virtual SSID. The files are a standard Windows share from a Windows 7 box wired to the router. When I access the remote PC and share I get error msgs in the log:
Oct 14 12:03:13 daemon warn kernel: Error : chain idx 25 is not in use or invalid handle 0x0
Oct 14 12:03:13 daemon warn kernel: Error : chain idx 25 is not in use or invalid handle 0x0
Oct 14 12:03:15 daemon warn kernel: Error : chain idx 25 is not in use or invalid handle 0x0

If I connect the client laptop to the main WiFi SSID it all works fine.
If I connect the server via Wifi to the main SSID (client still on guest SSID) it all works fine.

It's only the combination of a client on a guest SSID, and server wired that produces the errors. Sounds similar to this post, though there's no mention of guest/virtual SSID, but the client is wireless, and the server is wired.

Anyone seen similar issues?
(I've checked all the Client Isolation settings, and have even reflashed and reconfigured the router).

[billion_fan]

Dusting off an old post here - but this is the only reference I find (apart from my own forum entries) about the same error message.

I'm trying to share files to a Windows 7 laptop connected via a WiFi Guest/Virtual SSID. The files are a standard Windows share from a Windows 7 box wired to the router. When I access the remote PC and share I get error msgs in the log:
Oct 14 12:03:13 daemon warn kernel: Error : chain idx 25 is not in use or invalid handle 0x0
Oct 14 12:03:13 daemon warn kernel: Error : chain idx 25 is not in use or invalid handle 0x0
Oct 14 12:03:15 daemon warn kernel: Error : chain idx 25 is not in use or invalid handle 0x0

If I connect the client laptop to the main WiFi SSID it all works fine.
If I connect the server via Wifi to the main SSID (client still on guest SSID) it all works fine.

It's only the combination of a client on a guest SSID, and server wired that produces the errors. Sounds similar to this post, though there's no mention of guest/virtual SSID, but the client is wireless, and the server is wired.

Anyone seen similar issues?
(I've checked all the Client Isolation settings, and have even reflashed and reconfigured the router).

Issue has been reported to our engineers waiting for a reply now

[kidhazy]

Issue has been reported to our engineers waiting for a reply now

Thanks. Does that mean you were able to reproduce the same error, or you've sent it to the engineers to see if they can reproduce it?

[billion_fan]

Issue has been reported to our engineers waiting for a reply now

Thanks. Does that mean you were able to reproduce the same error, or you've sent it to the engineers to see if they can reproduce it?

Both

[kidhazy]

Issue has been reported to our engineers waiting for a reply now

Thanks. Does that mean you were able to reproduce the same error, or you've sent it to the engineers to see if they can reproduce it?

Both

Thanks again.

FWIW: I'm running a 7800VDPX on firmware 2.32D.

[kennyc]

Got the same error here also....

[kidhazy]

Got the same error here also....

Thanks kennyc.

I also just tried this on an iPad, connected to a guest SSID using 5GHz.

I used an app called FileBrowser to browse to the Windows share, and got the same errors:

Nov 25 09:09:45 daemon warn kernel: Error : chain idx 10 is not in use or invalid handle 0x0

So, it is both 2.4GHz and 5GHz and the issue occurs when the client is a PC or an iPad.

[evansnp]

I have two NAS servers in my network; one is running on FreeBSD, the other is Linux based. I access both via the 2.4 and 5Ghz WiFi, as CIFS shares, and have never had any issues with PCs, or iPads etc. I wonder what's different to make other people have these issues?