Hello,
Long time reader, first time poster :) I seem to be having a problem with
my samba server. When doing file work, it likes to suddenly reboot...
Let me rattle off hardware specs here: AMD k6-2 300, 128mb PC-100 mem,
3gb WD and 10gb WD, a 3c905b and two Netgear 310FX's, a Diamond Stealth,
and a Memorex 40x cdrom. I am actually planning on taking out the second
netgear card (or maybe the 3c905b). This box runs RedHat 6.1 with
these services: samba, nfs, httpd(apache), bind, and dhcpd. The 10 gb
hard drive has a 7gig partition setup for mp3's. I noticed that every
once in a while, when listening to mp3's(located on the samba server) on
my windows box, it would just stop all of a sudden and my samba server
would be booting up, which is odd. Anyway it only happen three times
before. Then about a week ago, I was moving files from a windows machine
to the samba server and it rebooted three times in the process, I finally
gave up on those files. Well, all was well again until tonight, while
listening to mp3's again and typing e-mail (which resides on the server,
ARGHHHH!!!) It proceeded to reboot, when it came back up I started my
mp3's back up and BAM! it rebooted again!!! It decided to do this four
times. Now it has been working fine for an hour, go figure... Anyway, I
realize that this is most likely not a samba problem, but perhaps a
hardware issue, but I am not certain. I am going to have all change my
dhcpd.conf to use my samba server as the gateway also to increase traffic
while the server is here at my house. I use this machine once a month for
a LAN party, in which it is the gateway/samba/intranet/game server.
Hopefully it doesn't end up being hardware. Anyone have thoughts, ideas,
troubleshooting tips/ideas?
Thanks
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Josh Owens
josho@bigfoot.com
