I'm sorry to hear about your loss Trevor. Marcel
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 11:19, Trevor Lauder 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 >
