HI there, I need some urgent help, we have a number of win2k machines in the office that connect to different shares on sun boxes using samba. One particular machine can no longer connect to any shares on a particular server when all other machines can. This is a big mystery to me has anyone had anything like this before??? The error we are getting is "System error 53" on command line, and if we do netstat the connection attempts come up as TIME_WAIT which doesn't make sense to me. the confusing bit is that this particular machine can connect to any other shares on all other servers. And all other machines in the office can connect to the particular server that the machine mentioned above cant. Please can someone advice??? Let me know if you need more info? Thanks, Paul
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 05:36:56PM +0100, Paul Daukas wrote about '[Samba] connecting to samba server from win2k':> I need some urgent help, we have a number of win2k machines in the office > that connect to different shares on sun boxes using samba. One particular > machine can no longer connect to any shares on a particular server when all > other machines can. This is a big mystery to me has anyone had anything > like this before??? The error we are getting is "System error 53" on > command line, and if we do netstat the connection attempts come up as > TIME_WAIT which doesn't make sense to me.Is there anything special about any of those two machines? Can those 2 machines ping each other? Jelmer
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:28:36PM +0100, Paul Daukas wrote about 'RE: [Samba] connecting to samba server from win2k':> Machine A is a server a Sun box (not sure which version of Solaris) that has > samba installed on it and has a few shares on it, so that windows machines > can access it through those different shares> machine B is a windows 2000 professional box standard installation fully > patched from microsoft website, configuration is identical to 20 other > desktops in the company that can easily access machine A with no problems.> We have other server C that has same configuration as machine A. machine B > can easily access server C as well as all other servers using samba, except > server A.> If i try pinging machine A from machine B, pinging works fine. but when i > try typing \\severname it fails miserably giving me system error 53.> The worrying bit about this is that this problem is not consistent, it would > be much easier to think this through if I could not connect to any of the > samba servers from the machine B or if none of our desktops could connect to > server A. But this problem seems to be just between this server and one > desktop, which to be honest doesn't make sense at all.What version of samba are you running? 2.2.5 is the latest.. Have you tried 3.0 yet? 'sniffing' your network with a program like ethereal might give you some useful information. Jelmer
> Is there anything special about any of those two machines? Can those 2 > machines ping each other? >i thought i explained this already... Yes they can ping we just did some sniffing using ethereal the client machine is seeing two identical ACK paskets coming in can that cause the problem? Paul