samba - Nov 2003 - error message after long connect with windows client(s)

I am running Samba version 2.2 on RH9 with a 800mhz w/ 384 SDRAM.

My Windows XP clients can connect and map my shares to drives on their
machines with no problems, but sometimes after being connected for a
couple days they suddenly cannot access the share. They receive an error
message stating that it cannot connect to the server.

This is only solved by rebooting the RH server, which is problematic
because this is in an office with around 8 clients and it also runs the
web and email server.

Any help would be *greatly* appreciated.

Hello.

On 2 Nov 2003 at 11:42, todd@nhaparts.com wrote:
> My Windows XP clients can connect and map my shares to drives on their
> machines with no problems, but sometimes after being connected for a
> couple days they suddenly cannot access the share. They receive an error
> message stating that it cannot connect to the server.
> This is only solved by rebooting the RH server, which is problematic
> because this is in an office with around 8 clients and it also runs the
> web and email server.
Please try

[global]
   keepalive = 0
   socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE=0

in Samba server. I have very similar trouble, but not exactly same, and I am 
still not sure in diagnosis. _Seems_, it helps.  Success report will be 
appreciated.

Alexey

Hi, for the first ,update samba to version 3, then retry
but i guess that some open connects stay and  cause samba to crash
restarting the daemon should be enough.( have you tried it?)
cause there is no version samba 2.2 ( you mean 2.2.8a? ) i dont know if your
version is that old
that it may have a bug with win xp.
samba 3 should solve the problem but also check if you have software which
is buggy to the servers files.
maybe other deamons work on your samba shares and lock files.
Check your samba and syslogs
Best Regards
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <todd@nhaparts.com>
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Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 6:42 PM
Subject: [Samba] error message after long connect with windows client(s)

> I am running Samba version 2.2 on RH9 with a 800mhz w/ 384 SDRAM.
>
> My Windows XP clients can connect and map my shares to drives on their
> machines with no problems, but sometimes after being connected for a
> couple days they suddenly cannot access the share. They receive an error
> message stating that it cannot connect to the server.
>
> This is only solved by rebooting the RH server, which is problematic
> because this is in an office with around 8 clients and it also runs the
> web and email server.
>
> Any help would be *greatly* appreciated.
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On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 todd@nhaparts.com wrote:
> I am running Samba version 2.2 on RH9 with a 800mhz w/ 384 SDRAM.
>
> My Windows XP clients can connect and map my shares to drives on their
> machines with no problems, but sometimes after being connected for a
> couple days they suddenly cannot access the share. They receive an error
> message stating that it cannot connect to the server.
>
> This is only solved by rebooting the RH server, which is problematic
> because this is in an office with around 8 clients and it also runs the
> web and email server.
>
> Any help would be *greatly* appreciated.
Update to samba-2.2.8a or samba-3.0.0, this should solve this problem.

- John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org