Samba-Problem

[raghu nandan]

Hi friends,
 	we are facing a peculiar problem. We are having two servers,
1.Redhat 6.2 which we are using for more than two years without 
any major problem and
2.Mandrake 8.0 which we are using from past 8 months with the 
following problem from past around   two months.
 	We have a windows peer to peer network which will be accessing 
these servers.

 	A file with name smb.log.old is created in /var/log/samba with 
the following contents.

[2002/07/01 13:42:15, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(508)
   write_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
[2002/07/01 13:42:15, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(508)
   write_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
[2002/07/01 13:42:15, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(508)
   write_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
[2002/07/01 13:42:15, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(508)
   write_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
[2002/07/01 13:42:15, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(508)
   write_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe


 	It grows very fast and reaches a size of about a GB. This fills 
up the /var directory(1 GB partition). Accessing any file in the 
server as well as Telnet connection becomes very slow. Even if we 
delete the file the problem persists till the server is 
restarted.
 	Sometimes it is created again within 1 or 2 hours and sometimes 
after several days. So we are facing lot of problem. I have 
searched the web a lot without any breakthrough.

 	If somebody can help us regarding this we will be very much 
thankful to them.


Thanks in advance

Regards
Raghunandan


Cheers
Raghunandan
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