On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 08:37:31AM -0400, Monty Malik wrote:
-> Hi all,
->
-> Just a few questions. But first my configuration.
->
-> I am running Mandrake 7.02 on a PII 400 with 128M Ram, using
-> enlightenment as a windows manager.
->
-> Now down to the questions:
->
-> Samba Problems:
->
-> I am trying to consistently connect to a directory on a win98
-> machine. I can connect fine and can access the files without any
-> problems. However, if I keep both computers idle for about a day, I
-> lose my samba connection. For some reason I get disconected. I can
-> remount the samba share, without any problems and it works fine, but
-> will eventually disconnect itself. Any ideas what may be going on?
The SMB protocol appears to drop connections from time to time. I have
seen this on different versions of Samba on different versions of LInux
and on Windows.
My workaround is to reconnect. I run a virus scan of my Windows machines
from a cron job on my server. The virus scan is prefaced by unmounting and
remounting all the drives to be scanned.
->
-> TCP/IP performance:
->
-> I have a cable connection which is attached to an OpenBSD box, which
-> serves the net to my other computers. When I am downloading a large file
-> on my linux machine, my mouse becomes extremely jumpy and difficult to
-> move around. This only occurs when downloading files larger than 5megs
-> at a speed greater than 65kbps. Any one know why what causing this, and
-> any ideas on what I can do to prevent this from occuring.
Odd. I have seen stuff like this caused by an IRQ conflict between the
mouse and some other hardware such as the ethernet card or the hard
drive. That was on much slower computers, but you might check it out.
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