Hello,
Our service has multiple Samba servers to serve up the same directories
for our users. The users map to a single address, which directs them to a
server by round-robin DNS.
This hasn't really been a problem until recently. One user in particular
complains that he loses his session, often in the middle of editing a
document, causing problems with Windows file locking and he says he has to
rename files to continue working.
I'm suspecting there is a firewall on his network or on his computer
that's doing something funny.
I'll see the same user shown as having a session on two different servers.
I've also seen log messages like this that make me think he's hopping
from server to server:
Nov 14 23:44:37 rfs-gw2 smbd[30790]: [2007/11/14 23:44:37, 0]
lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_data(384)
Nov 14 23:44:37 rfs-gw2 smbd[30790]: read_socket_data: recv failure for
4. Error = Connection timed out
Nov 14 23:44:37 rfs-gw2 smbd[30790]: [2007/11/14 23:44:37, 0]
smbd/service.c:set_current_service(51)
Nov 14 23:44:37 rfs-gw2 smbd[30790]: chdir (/home/j/r/jrpierce) failed
I am looking for advice on how to make Samba servers play nice in a
round-robin environment, or for a way to help the user keep a single
server while he's working.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris
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