samba - Aug 2000 - server is busy errors

I have samba running on an IP MASQ/forward system.  It serves as the
internet gateway for a small workgroup.  I'm having a couple of problems
that I'd like some help on if anybody can...

First, and most disturbing, when the internet connection drops for some
reason (which I have tested with DSL and "wireless" LAN), the server
machine gives "busy" errors to the Windows clients.  When that
internet
connection comes back on-line, then the busy errors go away.  Any clues as
to what this could be?

Secondly, Quickbooks files are handled very slowly.  I think that this has
to do with the frequent opening and closing that is done by Quickbooks on
its shared data files.  It goes *much* faster on Win98 shares rather than
samba shares.  Any ideas?

Thanks.

Lee Howard

Also, I don't seem to be getting any list e-mail any more... how do I
re-subscribe?

/etc/hosts is fine, and everything should be resolvable there.  The
resolving is done by hosts first, then DNS... so I don't think this is the
problem in particular.

I do have more info, though... I don't think that the problem is specific
to samba, because when I try to ftp into it (locally, of course), I never
can get a logon prompt for as long as this same samba problem is occuring.
However, if I remove the default route, then all is happy.  Any ideas?

Thanks.
Lee Howard


At 07:41 AM 8/2/00 -0400, John Kuhn wrote:
>> First, and most disturbing, when the internet connection drops for some
>> reason (which I have tested with DSL and "wireless" LAN), the
server
>> machine gives "busy" errors to the Windows clients.  When
that internet
>> connection comes back on-line, then the busy errors go away.  Any clues
as
>> to what this could be?
>
>if the message is "network is busy" it's more then likely
because you don't
>have your /etc/hosts file setup.. I ran into this same problem and then I
>realized that samba was trying to resolve my cleints thru my internet
>connection before my lan... so setting up the file correctly will force it
>to resolve thru the lan first..
>
>make sense?
>
>John Kuhn
>