On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 15:07, dave cunningham wrote: > I'm new to linux & samba having just started using each within the last > month or so. > > I have a small LAN at home consisting of 2 win2k machines and a samba > file server (2.2.6) on a SuSE 7.3 box. > > I'm seeing intermittent problems accessing a samba share from each of > the two win2k machines and would appreciate any help in solving this. > > What I see is problems creating a new file or opening an excel file on > the server. There seems to be no problems at all in opening read only > files. > > A typical error in creating a file through explorer on a win2k machine > is "'fileName' cannot be accessed. The file may be read only, or you may > be trying to access a read-only location. Or the server the document > is stored on may not be responding" > > & the error I see in opening an excel file reads > "'fileName' cannot be accessed. The file may be read only, or you may > be trying to access a read-only location. Or the server the document > is stored on may not be responding". > > This seems to happen randomly from either win2k machine and the problem > will sometimes disappear and at other times require smb to be restarted > to see a resolution. > > I have 2 trace files available logging this behaviour however I don't > understand what they are showing. > > The first (level 3) is here <http://www.upsilon.org.uk/temp/log.smbd> > shows a user opening excel file 'BOR - Donegall Road Timetable.xls' > being presented with the 'cancel/retry' message & selecting retry a > number of times. > > The second (level 6) is here > <http://www.upsilon.org.uk/temp/log.smbd.gz> and shows a user attempting > to open excel file 'ITT Financial Statement (version1)(version 1).xls' > being presented with the same 'cancel/retry' message and selecting retry > one time. > > It was suggested that this may be being caused by DNS issues - initially > I had no DNS server running on the LAN. In an attempt to remedy the > problem (unsuccessful), I set up a DNS server. Thus the first trace file > is for the LAN without DNS (though with hosts/lmhosts configured > correctly - I hope), the second is for the LAN with a DNS server. > > Additionally, the when the first trace was taken the win2k boxes were > running SP2, for the second they have been transitioned to SP3. > > I've been trying to get to the bottom of this for a few weeks now & > would appreciated any help at all. > > My smb.conf files is as follows: > > [global] > workgroup = WEELAN > netbios name = MINI > server string = > encrypt passwords = Yes > username map = /etc/samba/users.map > syslog = 0 > unix extensions = Yes > socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY > printcap name = CUPS > os level = 2 > printing = cups > veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/ > > [printers] > comment = All Printers > path = /var/tmp > create mask = 0600 > printable = Yes > browseable = No > > [print$] > comment = Printer Drivers > path = /var/lib/samba/drivers > write list = @ntadmin root > force group = ntadmin > create mask = 0664 > directory mask = 0775 > > [documents] > path = /home/samba/documents > read only = No > force create mode = 0770 > > > -- > Dave Cunningham > PGP Key <http://www.upsilon.org.uk/dc.asc> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
set your log file to <logdir>/%U_on_%m_from_%m.log, and see if you're getting oplock errors in that log. Christopher -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba