On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:26:19PM +1000, Gary Newcombe wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a new install on a network comprised of win98 and xp machines. I'm a > relative newbie to samba and getting some errors and problems. I would much > appreciate some advice on my setup. > > The setup is samba-3.0.23,1 running on FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE as a windows > server replacement and with clients mostly running dos POS software on win98 > machines and other dos and windows software on win98 and xp machines - no > windows servers. > > As there was no real user/password security in the place, I tried to set up > samba using nobody/anon access as much as possible so that we could just > drop the server in. The windows machines are all set up to use the samba > server for wins resolution through dhcp as well as dns etc. > > The main problem is that the windows 98 machines keep hard locking and need > a hard reset (usually) to get the network back. To begin with, I had oplocks > set to default on. The winxp machines were ok but the win98 machines were > locking every 3 to 4 transactions. They would also freeze after an extended > period left idle. This is also after updating them all. Disabling oplocks > seems to have helped, but there are still problems, mostly like the examples > following. > > Any comments and suggestions much appreciated.
Try turning off sendfile. We should detect a Win9x client and not use sendfile, but it won't hurt to be sure. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
