Topic: Win9x/Me clients losing connections with SME

[Gordon Lee]

Hello!

Please don't mind my newbie question since I'm a novice with Linux and SME.

Our TCP/IP network 172.28.36.X has two segments with subnet mask 255.255.255.128 and a gateway 172.28.36.126. We have a SME 5.0 as our file server to which our around eighty Win9x/Me clients copy large archives of hundreds of MB, via a mapped network drive, in each day's lunch hour. The problem is that after the lunch time, the clients lose connections to the SME server and cannot reestablish their network drives until I reboot the SME.

Could you please tell me what the problems are and what I can do to fix them? Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards,
Gordon

[WXP]

This won't help you much maybe but did you try a "service smb restart" ?

Do it instead of rebooting your server.
If this works, just put as a cron task.

Can't help you more 'cause I never had trouble since I use Win2k !

See you

[Gordon Lee]

Hi WXP!

Thank you for your quick response. I'll try your suggestion.

Best regards,
Gordon

[Richard Emory]

If you see this in either your /var/log/samba/log.nmbd or /var/log/samba/log.nmb file: (time, date, names and IP numbers will be different)

[2001/11/23 04:02:01, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:sig_hup(92)
  Got SIGHUP dumping debug info.
[2001/11/23 04:02:01, 0] nmbd/nmbd_workgroupdb.c:dump_workgroups(292)
  dump_workgroups()
   dump workgroup on subnet     192.168.1.2: netmask=  255.255.255.0:
        CADD2(1) current master browser = LIMELIGHT
                LIMELIGHT 400c9b0b (March Networks SME Server)
[2001/11/23 04:02:01, 0] nmbd/nmbd_workgroupdb.c:dump_workgroups(292)
  dump_workgroups()
   dump workgroup on subnet  UNICAST_SUBNET: netmask=    192.168.1.2:
        CADD2(1) current master browser = UNKNOWN
                LIMELIGHT 40099b0b (March Networks SME Server)
[2001/11/23 04:03:04, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:sig_term(65)
  Got SIGTERM: going down...

The problem is Samba (I think).  I have the same problem on two servers.  Some event triggers samba to dump the workgroup and loose the primary server status.  My only fix was to change the 'os level = 165' and set a cron four mins. after the dump that did a samba restart.  Hope you do not have the same problem.  No one had any real fix for mine.

[Gordon Lee]

Hi Richard,

Thank you for your response.

In fact I've now reinstalled e-smith v4.1.2 and wait for a more stable version of SME.

Best regards,
Gordon