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To save posting a large text document to the list, here's the paper in html on a public web site: http://www.geocities.com/orville_torpid/papers/interoperability.html The paper is nominally about PC NetLink (I work of Sun), but it's really about the interoperability of most of the current SMB programs. Comments, suggestions and brickbats happily accepted! --dave

...poll client connections every 30 seconds to make sure they haven't gone away. If they have, Samba will clean up, report an unexpected disconnect in the logs and update the smbstatus program. Next you have to find out why the clients are disconnecting: please see http://www.geocities.com/orville_torpid/papers/ethernet-note.txt for some hints on diagnosis. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify Performance & Engineering Team | some people and astonish the rest. Americas Customer Engineering | -- Mark Twain (905) 415-2849...

...ba will tear them down and release > > any datastructures and locks they're holding. > > > > This is usually a symptom of a network or client > > problem: I have a note about an earlier symptom at > > http://www.geocities.com/orville_torpid/papers/ethernet-note.txt > > > > Horst wrote: > > > The visible symptom is that users find themselves locked out of files > > > by their own processes. On the server side we find that users have > > > multiple smbd's running that are talking to the same...