From: "Mitch (WebCob)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: samba@lists.samba.org Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:19:31 -0800 Subject: RE: [Samba] Time out tuning ? > Hello, > > I have a samba server running at a customer site and they have the > follwing problem: > Employees of that company have for extended periods sometimes > word documents opened for editing, but it happens regularly that > for an half hour or more no activity takes place because they are > working on something else (it's a flower seed growing company , with pc's > in the glasshouses and they have to monitor the seedbeds and fill in > now and then something in in word documents). When that happens > the word application returns a message that , "There was a sharing > violation" ,..... > Is this caused by a time out on the server? or the client? Is it possible > to configure the samba server to forcefully keep the connection between > the > client and the server alive?
>[Mitch says:] Are there any VPN's, smart switches or routers involved? >I've not seen any app timeout problems with my servers, but I know that some >routers or VPN arrangements have short timeouts / lack keep alive and can >cause this sort of behaviour. We have this same exact problem in an networked environment where clients are connected to a Samba server that is hosting to multiple subnets. I've been trying to debug this for over a year without success. It seems that if one user has a word document open for an extended amount of time Windows will corrupt the file. Also, if file explorer is open on a share for an extended amount of time it will show a disconnected dialog box. The network switches we have here in the network are configured to forward broadcast packets from our main server to all other subnets and samba is configured to advertise in these subnets specifically, however, this doesn't seem help. Is there anything wrong with this smb.conf file that might be causing this? [global] workgroup = NDGENG server string = B2 Samba log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 log level = 3 security = user encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd unix password sync = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u min password length = 8 passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* username map = /etc/samba/smbusers remote announce = 192.168.3.255 192.168.7.255 192.168.11.255 192.168.15.255 ; os level = 255 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY preferred master = yes domain master = yes ; local master = yes wins support = yes ; wins server = 192.168.0.4 time server = no dns proxy = yes preserve case = yes short preserve case = yes default case = lower ; try to fix "lease broken - owner pid = ????" syslogs (JB 10/27/04) ; http://www.spinics.net/lists/samba/msg27983.html kernel oplocks = false ; try to fix file corruption (TW 09/01/04) oplock break wait time = 50 lock spin count = 50 lock spin time = 30 debug level = 2 [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = yes read only = no create mode = 0700 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba