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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 17:08:56 +0100
From: Mike Brodbelt <m.brodbelt@acu.ac.uk>
Subject: Server conncetion breaking (timeouts?)
> I'm running Samba 2.0.6 on Linux here, and I'm hitting a slight
hiccup.
> When a user opens a file (usually in Word or Excel) and then goes away
> for a long time, upon returning to it and trying to save, they get a
> message to the effect that they've lost their connection to the
server.
> Apparently, OK'ing this and trying again works, but I'd still like
to
> know what's happening, and if there's a fix. I don't have the
exact
> message, as I've not seen it, just had reports of it....
Hi Mike,
It sounds like a timeout. In samba, it's called dead time. The default
should
be 0 - meaning it will never
drop the connection, but you may want to check this with a testparm and grep it
for dead time.
the global parameter is
dead time = # (in minutes)
Hope that helps,
SP
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