Re: [Discuss] Network IP Conflicts and Dropped Samba Connections Oh My!

2012-03-20 Thread Tom Metro
Eric Chadbourne wrote: >> TCPdump, it's cross-distro, it takes longer to master then GUI >> sniffers, like Wireshark, but, like most shell-based tools, it's worth >> the invsetment. > > Cool I'll check it out. Sounds like a fun tool to learn more about my > little LAN. One of the great things ab

Re: [Discuss] Network IP Conflicts and Dropped Samba Connections Oh My!

2012-03-19 Thread Eric Chadbourne
On 03/19/2012 11:19 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote: > Are the conflicting IP addresses in the DHCP range that the SMC is > managing? That's not clear to me from your description of the > problem. If they are, I might guess that the SMC is periodically > resetting itself and forgetting about addresses i

Re: [Discuss] Network IP Conflicts and Dropped Samba Connections Oh My!

2012-03-19 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 03/19/2012 10:23 AM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: > Hi All, > > So I have these two problems. > > 1. On the company shared drive (samba) once in a while people report > microshaft word files getting locked and then they can't use them > until they delete the lock files, but it's only one person using

Re: [Discuss] Network IP Conflicts and Dropped Samba Connections Oh My!

2012-03-19 Thread Guy Gold
On Mon,Mar 19 10:23:AM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: > 1. One of the cicso switches burned out a fan which I replaced. I > think the old bugger is reaching it's end of life. Maybe this is > intermittently screwing up samba connections? Never say never in the happy world of Telecom, but the switch wo

Re: [Discuss] Network IP Conflicts and Dropped Samba Connections Oh My!

2012-03-19 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: > Hi All, > > So I have these two problems. >... > > 2.  Staff is occasionally getting IP conficts.  I've checked to make sure my > servers have the proper static IPs and that the Comcast SMC Networks router > doesn't use these addresses in

[Discuss] Network IP Conflicts and Dropped Samba Connections Oh My!

2012-03-19 Thread Eric Chadbourne
Hi All, So I have these two problems. 1. On the company shared drive (samba) once in a while people report microshaft word files getting locked and then they can't use them until they delete the lock files, but it's only one person using the file. The samba server has been running almost a y