Re: [Samba] time sensitive error the specified network name is no longer available.

2008-10-29 Thread Tom Peters
At 04:09 PM 10/29/2008 -0500, William Marshall wrote: I have a user w/ puzzling error. We have not been able to get a tcpdump or significant samba log, but I'm posting to see if anyone else has seen this. I did find some older posts that point to possible client issues. We're running samba

[Samba] Basic server role question

2008-10-28 Thread Tom Peters
I have a samba 3.2.3-0.1-1882 server running on Suse SL11.0. It's out of the box, just the way YAST builds it. Pardon the extremely basic level questions here. The intent for this server is basically just file and print services. (It's defined as a BDC, I think, because I didn't do that on a

Re: [Samba] TCP/IP block size

2008-08-04 Thread Tom Peters
At 08:11 PM 8/4/2008 -0400, Jeremy M wrote: I don't know if this is a Samba question or an OS question. I'm Or neither? How robust is your TCP/IP stack implementation? Is it possible it's reacting to response times by reducing block sizes? Is this sliding windows? Samba on Linux should do

Re: [Samba] TCP/IP block size

2008-08-04 Thread Tom Peters
At 08:16 PM 8/4/2008 -0500, Tom Peters wrote: At 08:11 PM 8/4/2008 -0400, Jeremy M wrote: I don't know if this is a Samba question or an OS question. I'm request an even fraction of that, such as 512 or 1024 bytes at a time, I always get that amount in the response. I wish I could request

Re: [Samba] the specified network name no longer exists

2008-07-20 Thread Tom Peters
At 12:05 PM 7/21/2008 +1000, you wrote: hi all i'm experiencing some really funny behavior on our samba server (CentOS5, Samba Version 3.0.25b-1.el5_1.4) from time to time, our xp/2000 users (our workstations are xp/2000 based) are reporting that while they try to copy a file from one location

Re: [Samba] Samba kills network.

2007-04-07 Thread Tom Peters
At 10:14 AM 4/7/2007 +0200, C.Scheeder wrote: Tom Peters schrieb: 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

Re: [Samba] Samba kills network.

2007-04-06 Thread Tom Peters
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

Re: [Samba] Samba kills network.

2007-04-05 Thread Tom Peters
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

Re: [Samba] Samba kills network.

2007-04-05 Thread Tom Peters
At 03:04 PM 4/5/2007 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:15:33PM -0500, Tom Peters wrote: 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

Re: [Samba] Disconnected network drive

2006-11-29 Thread Tom Peters
At 06:30 PM 11/28/2006 -0500, Paul Abrahams wrote: I have a couple of Linux directories that are being exported via Samba running under SuSE 10.0. On the Windows side, each of them is assigned a (mapped) Me too, only mine is SuSE 9.3 drive letter. In the My Computer list they initially

Re: [Samba] 3.0.21c and big wmv or mpg files

2006-04-02 Thread Tom Peters
At 03:15 PM 4/1/2006 +0200, Thomas Bork wrote: Tom Peters wrote: Tell me, do you get this problem when you drag/n/drop a file into a folder on the samba share? And can you prevent this problem from occurring by the following procedure? I cannot see the problem here but heared from 2 users

Re: [Samba] 3.0.21c and big wmv or mpg files

2006-03-31 Thread Tom Peters
At 10:40 PM 3/29/2006 +0200, you wrote: Hi @all, are there any problems known with 3.0.21c and bigger video files (mpg and wmv greater than 700 MB)? Received the information that these files cannot copied from XP to Samba (W2K is okay). Error message is the well known: [2006/03/28

[Samba] Transport endpoint not connected

2006-03-13 Thread Tom Peters
Well, I WAS puzzled by this persistent error. Then I stumbled onto something and I might have fixed it. It looks like with an XP client, XP might be trying to renegotiate which port to talk (445 or 139) over at the start of every transaction. Whichever one answers first is used for the rest of

Re: [Samba] Sharing a Secondary Hard Drive

2006-02-03 Thread Tom Peters
I installed a second hard drive on my Samba server box with the hopes of creating a share for the rest of my home network. It doesn't seem like Samba is able to read the drive for some reason, however. The new drive is mounted on /media/public. When I create a share directly to the drive and

Re: [Samba] Sharing a Secondary Hard Drive

2006-02-03 Thread Tom Peters
At 03:10 PM 2/3/2006 +, Joe Cipale wrote: Justin McCullough wrote: I just recently installed a second hard drive in my Samba server with the hopes of sharing it with the rest of my home network. It seems like Samba can not get the correct permissions to the drive, however. I have the

Re: [Samba] firewall

2005-11-25 Thread Tom Peters
At 06:31 PM 11/25/2005 -0300, contacto_AGS wrote: It work's OK but. When I installed a wireless acces point Linksys it does not work. I disabled the firewall in the acces point but with no result. Can anybody help me??? Many so-called wireless access points (WAP) are in reality a router

Re: [Samba] Backup Tape

2005-11-17 Thread Tom Peters
At 01:38 PM 11/16/2005 +0100, you wrote: Denis Vlasenko schrieb: On Wednesday 16 November 2005 12:34, Bruno Guerreiro wrote: Hi, not sure if this fits you, but have you tried Arkeia? http://www.arkeia.com/products/asb/ They have a free version for users with less than 50GB to backup. Best

[Samba] Op-lock error

2005-04-14 Thread Tom Peters
Samba 3.0.9-2.3 on Suse 9.2 I'm still getting errors copying to my samba box: Often the first attempt to copy to it fails seemingly before it's copied anything. When this happens, there is a zero-length file created with the right name. If I retry the copy immediately and reply Yes to overwrite

[Samba] Domain master vs. workgroup master?? (messages about domain master browser)

2005-03-31 Thread Tom Peters
Can anyone tell me what to do about the messages I'm getting, or should I ignore them? I think my SuSE 9.2 box is configured to expect a doman, and there isn't one, just a workgroup. Most things seem to be working ok, except for the messages: tolkien:/var/log # tail messages Apr 1 00:43:05

Re: [Samba] HELP Gethostbyaddr failed

2005-03-10 Thread Tom Peters
I too have posted a message with this error in the logs but no one has addressed the issue. The subject of my message was: Copy to 3.0.9-2.3-SUSE dies after 1.2 gb copied Only in my case it occurs with 3.0.9 (I have not considered an upgrade to 3.0.11 yet). Does no one have a suggestion for

[Samba] Copy to 3.0.9-2.3-SUSE dies after 1.2 gb copied

2005-03-09 Thread Tom Peters
I have Samba 3.0.9 on SuSE 9.2 on a P-III-500 with only 352mb of RAM. The share I'm copying to is on a SCSI RAID array handled by a Compaq Smart-2/P RAID Controller (rev 04) as identified by lspci. The RAID is all LVM and the share is ReiserFS-- maybe not the best choice for something which is

[Samba] Basic Samba functionality under SuSE 9.2

2005-02-08 Thread Tom Peters
I'm trying to get Samba 3.0.9-2.3 to work under Suse 9.2. This my very first Linux install and I'm a little at sea here. There are so many things that could be wrong I don't know where to start. The Windows machine I'm using as a client has TCP/IP, file/printer sharing, and Client for MS

[Samba] Re: Basic Samba functionality under SuSE 9.2

2005-02-08 Thread Tom Peters
At 08:00 PM 2/8/2005 +, you wrote: On Tuesday 08 February 2005 11:55 am, Tom Peters wrote: I'm trying to get Samba 3.0.9-2.3 to work under Suse 9.2. This my very first Linux install and I'm a little at sea here. There are so many things that could be wrong I don't know where to start

[Samba] Samba (old) and shared printers on MS Win 2003 SBS

2004-12-11 Thread Tom Peters
This might be a rube question; if so I apologize in advance. Someone asked me to help and I don't have much info, but I have a limited window and have to be forearmed with as much information as possible before I set foot in the door. The guy that asked for help runs a Red Hat 6.2 box with