Disconnects, weird errors..

[dave at techdev.buffalostate.edu]

I'm having some serious problems.

Our server (redhat 5.2) samba 2.0.5a (rpm update) started recently giving
these errors, on some of our (DOS, ugghh) clients.

Typically the client boots and logs onto the network and connects to a
drive.  This USUALLY works. A win95 install is started from the remote
install point, and it makes it to the end of the detection, and than dies.
The error is "cannont read from specified device", and the network drive
is no longer accessable.

I know its nothing wrong iwth the win95 installer as this works fine on
several other types of machines. the only thing different about these
"broken" clients is that they are slower (486dx-2), and all have Dec
Etherworks Turbo 3's (de205) ethernet cards.

the samba log is attached.  Is this a network problem, NIC problem (I
think it may), samba problem, or something else?

[1999/08/19 15:04:06, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(521)
  306_inst_01 (136.183.154.233) connect to service zak as user dave
(uid=500, gi
d=150) (pid 11524)
[1999/08/19 15:05:37, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_data(507)
  read_socket_data: recv failure for 4. Error = Connection reset by peer
[1999/08/19 15:05:37, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(557)
  306_inst_01 (0.0.0.0) closed connection to service zak
[1999/08/19 15:19:43, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(557)
  306_inst_01 (136.183.154.233) closed connection to service zak

Please help!

Dave J. Andruczyk
Instructional Support Associate
Department of Technology     
Buffalo State College