samba - Nov 2000 - "Samba dropping every 1-2 hours", "Mapped drives under Windows 2000" and "Samba and Lotus Notes"

In all your cases, the client may be timing out and disconencting,
planning to reconnect at a later time.
  This is a known feature (bug? disfeature?) of Windows clients,
which need to be able to reconnect in any case, lest server crashes
mess up clients!

   You may want to set up a log file for a particular client machine
and capture a log at at least log level = 3 for discussion on this
list: fee free to send me mail for how-tos and help in finding
the log lines that we all should look at.

--dave
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I (and probably lots of people) don't yet fully understand each and every
parameter, but is this problem related to the "deadtime" parameter? 
Just
curious.

Jason

At 09:18 AM 11/8/00 +1300, David Milligan wrote:
>As advised I was using Win98 to share a drive and I have found that often
>registry settings which in NT are in the "LanManServer\Parameters"
key are
>found in Windows 95/98 in the "VxD\VNETSUP" key. I added an entry
on my
>shared Win98 PC for "Autodisconnect" in this key and set it to
decimal 65000
>and voila! no more disconnects!
On my Windows 95/98 systems on one Samba network I do not have a 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP\Autodisconn
ect
key at all (or an Autodisconnect entry anywhere), and I do not experience
disconnects.

Why then, would your systems/network behave differently?

Yet, on another Samba network that I maintain, and which does experience
disconnects (well, the write_socket_data error), the Win95/98 systems also
do not have this registry key.  How do I know that adding this registry key
will be beneficial when it is not needed on other networks with a very
similar configuration?

Thanks

Lee Howard