By the way, I was hoping this would be significant: If I refresh my view of a Samba share on the XP box by pressing F5 or clicking View-->Refresh, so that there is some recent activity on that share, and then begin the copy operation immediately, e.g. within 20 seconds, the copy operation always succeeds.

Roots <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is that true for you as well?

The files I am copying tend to be medium-large: 180 mb to 900 mb. But even with small files I've had it do the same thing.

At 10:00 AM 4/6/2007 +0200, C.Scheeder wrote:
Hi,
First:
you missed to tell us the version of samba you are using, and the
Software/OS of the client you are trying to copy your files from.

Yes, sorry, I realized after that we had not discussed versions or etc. Of course I don't know what versions Roots <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> but I have 3.0.9-2.3 of Samba here. I know it's pretty old.

second:
I never had any problems moving large files around using w98/W2k/XP
boxes to and from the samba-servers i maintain (roundabout 12 machines),
except when bad/dying hardware/software was involved.

have you tried from another client?

Yes. Similar issues result from another XP Pro box.

have you updated ALL your clients drivers (not only the Nic's drivers)
to the latest versions?

No.

have you checked if there are corrupted packets on your network ("ifconfig eth1" shows you statistics off packets on your server)

It's eth0 for me. Out of 95 million packets received the errors counts are: 1 error, 7 overruns, 1 frame, 0 dropped. For 102.77 million packet sent, I have zero errors of any kind, zero collisions, txqueue length 1000.

have you replaced any peace of hardware inbetween the server and the
client?

No. Well, yes, but it made no difference. I swapped my SMC 10/100/1000 switch out for a 3Com SmartStack 10/100.

I did however try a crossover cable some time ago. The same results (errors) occur.

(if you don't have a spare-switch, connect client and server via an crossover-cable...)

has your switch updateable firmware? if yes, have you updated it to the
latest version?

I checked. There is no later version available for the SMC.

try to boot knoppix on the client and smbmount the shares then test if then copying works.

Make shure your server is the masterbrowser at any time.

The os level is set to 33, which is supposed to make sure of that.

make shure ALL unused network connections in your clients are disabled. (like ieee1394-network, or dvb-network, unused WLAN-Connetions and what the hell modern windows versions think of devices being able to do networking)
Christoph

Tom Peters schrieb:
At 09:14 PM 4/5/2007 +0100, you wrote:
When i try to swap files between disks on my server using samba i get errors: then windows reports "The specified network name is no longer available". Sometimes the copies are fine other times files just wont copy. Hardware checks out fine. Ive even replaced the network cable between server and switch thinking that might be causing the problem. Ive included a ethereal cap of the network during one of these problems, and my samba config as attachments the errors are as follows:

Apr 5 20:41:53 Ghost smbd[27010]: [2007/04/05 20:41:53, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1229) Apr 5 20:41:53 Ghost smbd[27010]: getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected

Please Help im at a loss to what the problem is!


[global]
        getwd cache = yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=65536 SO_RCVBUF=65536 IPTOS_LOWDELAY
        use sendfile = no
        lock spin time = 15
        lock spin count = 30
        map to guest = bad user
        log level = 1
        security = user
        os level = 64
        local master = Yes
        time server = Yes
        domain master = yes
        preferred master = yes
        wins support = yes
        domain logons = yes
        dos filetimes = Yes
        workgroup = Family
        netbios name = fileserver
        server string = Samba Server %v
        printcap name = cups
        load printers = yes
        printing = cups
        printer admin = root @adm @is
        log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
        max log size = 50
        ;hosts allow = 192.168.1.0/24 127.0.0.1
        interfaces = eth1 lo
        bind interfaces only = yes
        encrypt passwords = yes
        smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -c 'Machine Account' -s /bin/false -M %u
        wins proxy = yes
        dns proxy = no
        logon path =
        logon drive = U:
        logon script = %U.bat
        oplocks = no
        level2 oplocks = no
        change notify timeout = 300
        lpq cache time = 30
        winbind uid = 10000-20000
        winbind gid = 10000-20000
        winbind separator = +
        oplocks = no
        level2 oplocks = no
;       deadtime = 60
        wins proxy = yes
        lpq cache time = 30
        change notify timeout = 300
        getwd cache = yes
        dos filetimes = yes
        domain logons = yes
        obey pam restrictions = yes
        unix password sync = Yes
        pam password change = yes
        passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *Re*ype*new*UNIX*password* %n\n \
        *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
        add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false '%u'
        delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel '%s'
        add user to group script = /usr/bin/gpasswd -a '%u' '%g'
        delete user from group script = /usr/bin/gpasswd -d '%u' '%g'
        set primary group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -g '%g' '%u'
add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g && getent group '%g'|awk -F: '{print $3}'
        delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel '%g'
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -c 'Machine Account' -s /bin/false -M %u
[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        browseable = no
        writable = yes
        oplocks = yes
        level2 oplocks = yes
;       use sendfile = yes
;       preexec = echo "%u, %G, %a, %m (%I)\" >>/tmp/.log


[netlogon]
        comment = Network Logon Service
        path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
        writable = no
        read only = yes
        guest ok = no
        browseable = no
        share modes = no
root preexec = /usr/bin/ntlogon -u %U -g %G -o %a -d /var/lib/samba/netlogon/
        root postexec = rm -f /var/lib/samba/netlogon/%U.bat


[www]
        use sendfile = yes
        comment = Web Site
        path = /var/www
        writeable = yes
        valid users = @adm
        force group = apache
        force user = root
        create mask = 3754
        directory mask = 3754
        force create mode = 3754
        force directory mode = 3754
        oplocks = Yes
        level2 oplocks = yes


[logs]
        comment = Server Log Files
        path = /var/log
        read only = yes
        force group = root
        force user = root
        public = no
        valid users = @adm

[etc]
        comment = Server ETC Files
        path = /etc
        read only = yes
        force group = root
        force user = root
        public = no
        valid users = @adm

[Video's]
        comment = Video's
        path = /disks/sda
        public = yes
        only guest = yes
        writable = yes
        printable = no
        oplocks = Yes
        level2 oplocks = yes
        use sendfile = yes

[Games]
        comment = Games
        path = /disks/hde
        public = yes
        only guest = yes
        writable = yes
        printable = no
        oplocks = Yes
        level2 oplocks = yes
        use sendfile = yes


[Backups]
        browseable = yes
        writeable = yes
        delete readonly = yes
        invalid users = cathy,nick,linda
        path = /disks/hdi
        write list = administrator
        force directory mode = 755
        force create mode = 755
        comment = Backups
        valid users = administrator
        oplocks = Yes
        level2 oplocks = yes
        use sendfile = yes

[Admin Files]
        browseable = yes
        writeable = yes
        delete readonly = yes
        invalid users = cathy,nick,linda
        path = /disks/hdk
        write list = administrator
        force directory mode = 755
        force create mode = 755
        comment = Admin Files
        valid users = administrator
        oplocks = Yes
        level2 oplocks = yes
        use sendfile = yes

[Downloads]
        browseable = yes
        writeable = yes
        delete readonly = yes
        invalid users = cathy,nick,linda
        path = /disks/sdb
        write list = administrator
        force directory mode = 755
        force create mode = 755
        comment = Downloads
        valid users = administrator
        oplocks = Yes
        level2 oplocks = yes
;       use sendfile = yes

[Warez]
        comment = Programs & Drivers
        path = /disks/hdg
        public = yes
        only guest = yes
        writable = yes
        printable = no
        oplocks = Yes
        level2 oplocks = yes
        use sendfile = yes

[Music]
        comment = Music
        path = /disks/hdc
        public = yes
        only guest = yes
        writable = yes
        printable = no
        oplocks = Yes
        level2 oplocks = yes
        use sendfile = yes

[Games & Music & Videos]
        comment = Games & Music & Videos
        path = /disks/sdc
        public = yes
        only guest = yes
        writable = yes
        printable = no
        oplocks = Yes
        level2 oplocks = yes
        use sendfile = yes
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I have this problem all the time. Samba for me will cause the "The specified network name no longer exists" (that's how it's worded for me, not "available") and copy a zero-length file to the destination drive.
Reads from a Samba share are never any problem for me.
If you immediately retry the operation, and immediately say "Y" to overwrite it, it will succeed. If you do the above for the first in a series of files to be copied to a Samba share, it will copy all the rest of them sucessfully. The other thing that gives this error away is the "getpeername failed... ...transport endpoint not connected. " I thought I had this fixed, but after months, it has recurred. The fix I tried was this (in smb.conf):
smb ports = 139
The explanation I got was that Windows try to connect to a server over ports 443 and 139 nearly simultaneously, then use whichever one responds first. Samba replies to both, and it might be that Windows has already decided which it's going to use, and interprets the double reply as a failure.
Use sendfile = no has also been suggested to me.
Frankly, this is embarrassing, and has kept me from pushing Samba harder. When I ask about it, nobody seems to have a real answer.
-Tom

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