From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 20 6: 6: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08B2C37B415 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:05:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11756 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2001 15:05:43 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-36-29.bb.tninet.se (HELO there) (62.5.36.29) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 20 Sep 2001 15:05:43 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: Trevin Chow , Subject: Re: Flaky Samba server Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:06:44 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20010919184247.V46603-100000@benny.geektank.org> In-Reply-To: <20010919184247.V46603-100000@benny.geektank.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010920130546.08B2C37B415@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 20 September 2001 3:45 am, Trevin Chow wrote: > I've succesfully gotten Samba to work , (snip) However, every so often, the > connection seems to hiccup and I lose connection to the shares. I get > messages from windows saying the connection has been "lost". > > I know connectivity to the machines is okay during this period of time as > I'm still able to SSH to the server, FTP to it and access the web pages > being served by Apache. > > I'm running the basic smb.conf file, with very little changes. I'm > also using share level security. > > Does this problem sound familiar to anyone? yep....and in my case it was a dodgy network card but why not try 1) bumping up the logging level : log level = 3 (for example) 2) checking your log files and reporting what it says. 3) Saying what version of samba you are running 4) Giving a more detailed description of your physical network. -- One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. -- Will Durant To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message