Dear all, I have a SuSE 8.1 Installation running on a box and mixed windows versions on clients doing domain loggons etc on the SuSE8.1 box (I have activated Samba on it and all works just fine!). One of them has Win2K and it running a software that plays MP3s from the SuSE server on a 24hour basis (that is non-stop). For the past few months, the Win2K client will show an unexpected error stating :"There is a problem on your hard disk or the network" which causes all MP3 playing to cease. At that point, I have to terminate the program and restart it so it can continue. This doesn't make any sense since all other clients on the network can play those mp3s without any problems, however they do not play on a 24hour basis. I have checked for bad clusters etc on the SuSE machine, none found. I have checked the MP3s which caused the system to stop but they are absolutely fine and I can play them on any other PC including the one that stopped!! In addition, whenever something like this happens, I get the following error in the /var/log/messages log file: Jul 20 18:01:41 mp3 smbd-classic[18241]: [2004/07/20 18:01:41, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_data(436) Jul 20 18:01:41 mp3 smbd-classic[18241]: read_data: read failure for 4. Error = Connection reset by peer I have tried to figure out what the hell that error means and I cannot find anything for the life of me!!! I even changed my network cards on both (client and server) still nothing! The error continues to appear on the client and the server. It does not appear on a periodic interval (i.e. every 6 hours or something like that) so I cannot seem to trace it in any way!!!! I even re-installed my entire SuSE from scratch and fully patched it from fou4s and still no results! The only thing that I have not done yet is to upgrade it to Samba 3 (in case the Samba-Team has fixed something like this for which I have no idea since I am a very new linux user). Please, please, please help me with this one! It is driving me absolutely CRAZY!!!! Thank you in advance for your time and effort Kind Regards, Chris
I'm no expert, and I'm not just setting out to bash Windows. However I would guess that the problem is the first word in your subject line, "Win". OK, here's my take, and as I said I'm no expert. However on our home network it just seems that after a while Windows seems to forget how to access the network in some way. Almost everything [ IM's, Outlook, IE, and all those other little internet goodies ] can still function quite nicely. It's just when you try to access something on one of the other computers it says it can't "Browse Network". Reboot and everything works like a charm for a while. Perhaps Windows has Alzheimer's. *<[:oD By the way, Know what an expert is? An "ex" is a has been and a "spurt" is a drip under pressure. *<[:oD (o:]>*HUGGLES*<[:o) Billie Walsh The three best words in the English Language: "I LOVE YOU." Pass them on!
On Monday, September 6, 2004 05:56 am, Chris Roubekas wrote:
I have a SuSE 8.1 Installation running on a box and mixed windows versions on clients doing domain loggons etc on the SuSE8.1 box (I have activated Samba on it and all works just fine!).
Chris, I'd suggest updating the Samba packages as a first step, to the latest in the 2.x series. Available from SuSE at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/samba/2.2/i386/8.1. Backup all your *.tdb files before doing the upgrade, in case you want to roll back. If that doesn't work, use either ethtool or mii-tool to force your Samba server's NIC to whatever setting is appropriate. Do the same on the Win workstation, too. We have seen issues like yours where a NIC was doing autoneg periodically, had a minor hiccup, and bang went the connection to Samba. If all that fails, please post your smb.conf file and we'll take a look. Best regards, Mark -- _________________________________________________ L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 ************************************************ * Please note that my cell number has changed! * * The new number is (207) 615-1529 * * The old number will be retired by Sept 15th. * ************************************************
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