[Samba] Vista clients having Issues Copying files from SambaServer

[Anthony Giggins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org]
> On Behalf Of Moray Henderson
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 December 2009 8:21 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Vista clients having Issues Copying files from
> SambaServer
> 
> Anthony wrote:
> >> Please update to Samba 3.4.3 or later. Many Vista and Windows 7
> support
> >> related issues have been addressed during the 3.4.x series.
> >>
> >> Firstly, if the Samba logs note an invalid function all, that may
> mean
> >> an upgrade to a more recent version of Samba is needed.  When a
> Windows
> >> client notes an invalid function call or an invalid file handle the
> >> cause may be problems in the network transport layer.
> >>
> >> Secondly, note what the Samba server log message says. Short
> translation
> >> is: "I was taking to the client, but the client went away and did not
> >> respond!"   The client dropped the connection.  In all likeliness
> this
> >> is not a Samba problem and may actually be a network problem.  It is
> a
> >> problem regularly seen with low-cost ethernet interfaces and cheap
> >> ether-switches.
> >>
> >> Kindest,
> >> John T.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I think I already know the answer to this but do you know of any 3rd
> party
> >repos that would have packages for samba 3.4.x on Centos 5.4?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Anthony
> 
> ftp://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/experimental/centos/5/
> 
> The 3.4 series should make its way into their recent and tested
> repositories eventually.

Finally got around to upgrading this to 3.4.5 from the sernet repo 
above, but I'm still seeing the same issues, I'm guessing this is 
pointing to a Switch issue? But is there anything else it could be 
before going down this route?

Cheers,

Anthony