On Wed, 28 May 2003, Paul Trepanier wrote: > After awhile, my connections from my PC to my samba server end up with a > red "X" in them (share disappeared) if I leave my explorer window open. > If I click on these, they "wake up" and continue to function (and > the red X's go away). If I close my explorer window (while the red X's > are there) and reopen it , they are gone. An attempt to reestablish > these dropped connections is immediately successful. > > This is obviously a connection persistence issue and I've tried setting > both keepalive= and SO_KEEPALIVE (individually, of course) to no avail. > > Any ideas?
Your MS Windows client is the culprit - it is dropping idle connections as I recall. Also, you may find that there is a registry setting to turn that feature off. - John T. > > My installation is samba 2.2.8 running as a daemon (not inetd) on > Solaris 8 configured to use a WINS server and provide authentication via > a PDC (same host as WINS server). I do have an lmhosts file in the > samba /lib directory with the PDC/WINS server address in it. > > My globals section; > > [global] > workgroup = WORKGROUP > netbios name = SAMBASERVER > security = SERVER > encrypt passwords = Yes > password server = pdc > lanman auth = No > log level = 2 > log file = /usr/local/depot/samba-2.2.8/var/%m.log > deadtime = 5 > max smbd processes = 5 > socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_KEEPALIVE > load printers = No > show add printer wizard = No > preferred master = No > local master = No > domain master = No > wins server = [IP address of WINS/PDC server] > follow symlinks = No > > > -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
