Very sorry to hear about your daughter Trevor. Our condolences.
Good luck with your problem. At 05:19 PM 08/10/02 +0000, you wrote: >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 ApecTec Inc. www.apectec.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (403) 685 1888 Fax: (403) 685 1880
