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Hello (again), I'm using samba 2.0.6-4mdk on a Linux Mandrake 7.1 (kernel 2.2.15). Client are Win95/98 machines. I set up several guest shares (no password) along with a printer share. There is a problem when the Win9x are connecting to the shares (just after the password window) : Sometimes (not on a regular basis), the connection to the share doesn't work (with an error message like

...pipe [2000/08/22 09:59:16, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(563) write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 6: ERRNO = Broken pipe [2000/08/22 09:59:16, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(751) Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. Exiting It really was a network problem: the client failed, disconencted and marked the shares as doubtfull. When the user browsed them again, it reconnected. Suspect bad hubs, eternet settings (full/half duplex, for example) or too much broadcast traffic. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people 185 Ellersl...

Well I figured it out.. did not know that I could make a host file on the winblows client. I knew about the lmhosts file however.. this is a great list.. thanks to all.. *++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++* * Les Higger ITAF , * Local Area Network Coord. * lhigger@lausd.k12.ca.us * Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School * Los Angeles