On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 02:50:34PM -0400, Tom Ronayne wrote: > We have been using SAMBA for file/print servers and domain controllers > in Windows networks for several years. At one site, we have > intermittent problems in which the connection to the SAMBA server > appears to die: i.e., no one can connect to the share, and the Windows > clients (Terminal Servers and workstations) apparently keep re-trying to > connect which ultimately locks up those clients. > > They have about 20 or so users, mostly doing MS Office stuff, opening > one very large MS Access database (around 400 Mb) and using a lot of > Outlook PST files - some over 1 Gb each. All of this data, as well as > their roaming profiles, is stored in the 'base' share listed in smb.conf. > > We have noticed in many cases, but not all, that there is an error in > /var/log/messages indicating that the samba process had an error and > apparently the process exits. I've included a sample from > /var/log/messages. In this case, we are using (2) Windows 2000 Terminal > Servers, as well as one XP workstation. The OS on the SAMBA server is: > Mandrake (Linux version 2.6.3-7mdk-p3-smp-64GB > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 > 3.3.2-6mdk)) #1 SMP Wed Mar 17 15:34:39 CET 2004), and the SAMBA version > is: 3.0.2a. We also had the same problem using Fedora (Linux version > 2.6.9-1.667smp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.4.2 > 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)) #1 SMP Tue Nov 2 15:09:11 EST 2004) with > SAMBA 3.0.8pre1-0.pre1.3.
These versions (3.0.2a and 3.0.8 - a *pre* release no less !) are rather old. Would it be possible to update them to the production 3.0.22 release to see if these problems have already been fixed ? Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
