First off, I would like to apologize for missing the last meeting and ignoring the list for this past week and a bit. Our second child, a little girl was stillborn on October 1st and I have been busy planning the funeral, and spending time with my wife. I only started work up yesterday, I've been off since the 1st.
Anyways, I've been having an issue with one of the servers I admin. Samba needs to be restarted once in a while or it won't allow anyone to log into the domain, however people already logged in work just fine. I think this problem has to do with the motherboard chipset (It's VIA, yes I know VIA is crap but this is the hardware I was given to work with :( The server was throwing DMA errors which I couldn't fix without disabling DMA on the harddrives. I had a feeling that DMA was causing file system corruption so I disabled DMA and reinstalled Samba. The problem seemed to have gone away for a bit but it's happening again. Besides having to restart samba to allow people to log in, Samba also shares out / as whatever user is set as the guest account in samba. So anyone can go to //servername/nobody and browse the root of the server. This for lack of a better word is annoying. I've already tried all the obvious things to fix it and probably most of the not so obvious things. I have about 25 linux servers out there, about half of them running Samba with the exact same basic config and I've never had this problem. I was just wondering if anyone else has seen this type of issue before? It's an AMD processor with a VIA chipset, I think it's the VIA chipset that is the problem here because I can use the exact same config files for samba on a Intel processor using a SiS or Intel chipset and it works just fine. Any ideas? Thanks, Trevor
