Re: Clients get disconnected / Server hangs

From: Dirk Wagner (usenet_at_diwasoft.de)
Date: 09/02/04


Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 09:40:48 +0200

Jason Bourne <j_bourne_treadstone@hotmail.com> wrote:

> - Make sure the NIC isn't in a slot that shares an IRQ with anything

checked...

 
> - I'm thinking it maybe isn't buggy driver code because of the change you
> made.

I think your right with this.
The problem occurs with 3 different NIC at different slots (one built
in, two externals).

> But if the hardware can somehow get eliminated as a variable it would
> help.

Meanwhile I think Hardware could be eliminated...

 
> - Possibly the version of Samba? Google around and see if others have been
> seeing the same behaviour and if it is the common denominator. I believe I
> have seen another post somewhere describing essentially the problem you are
> reporting.

Until now, I found only people describing problem simalary to mine, but
I did not found a solved problem...

>
> - DHCP or static IP assignment? Is a DHCP lease expiring or attempting to
> renew? If you're using a DHCP server how is the DNS server getting updated?

Static IP

 
> - DNS version and capabilities? Windows might be looking for SRV records if
> they are setup to "register automatically with DNS" in the networking
> setup. If you're running an older version of Bind that doesn't support SRV
> records turn this off on the Windows boxen. Also, if you have WINS running
> on the Samba box have the Windows boxen been configured to use it?

> Like I said: no solution here, just some random thoughts on the subject in a
> very general manner. If there is some sort of period related to the
> malfunction it would be easier to pin down. Usually a hardware intermittent
> becomes more frequent with a decreasing period until it finally fails. A
> lot of times a software flaw/bug can be identified if an exact sequence of
> events can reproduce the problem. Too bad you don't have a spare server box
> to set up in parallel to see if the problem occurs on more than one
> machine. This would point to a Samba flaw. Wish you luck in any event.

I set up my own server first and build this one exacly like my one
(including domain settings etc).
I have no problems here.
This made me thinking of a hardware problem as the source of the problem
first.
Since the problem occurs first, I tried to stress my server to produce
the same error - but with no success.

Yesterday, we tried to log the users behavoir.
I seems that the error occurs mostly if they want to save (Word-)
documents. I will track this down and hope IŽll find a solution.

Ciao

dirk



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