First of all i would like to offer my condolances along withh my wife's on your loss. We are terribly sorry to hear the sad news. Szemir and Family
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 11:19, 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
