Errors in /var/log/messages and "dmesg"

[Pete Peterson]

A friend of mine is running Samba (samba-2.0.3-8) on a couple RedHat Linux
6.0 machines.  He is sharing files bilaterally at work with a WinNT
machine and at home with a Win9x machine.

In both places, he is getting a large number of SMB error messages.  I'm
not sure whether these are from the smbfs (smbmount) or from the Windoze
machines accessing the Linux drives, though I suspect the former.  I've
attached a sample of the messages below.  The smb_proc_readdir_long
messages are definitely smbfs messages, since they're referring to items
on the Micro$oft system.

Can anyone explain these messages and suggest what might be causing this
problem?  Any insight would be appreciated.


        pete peterson
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>From dmesg
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smb_get_length: recv error = 5
smb_request: result -5, setting invalid
smb_retry: new pid=7299, generation=3

smb_get_length: recv error = 5
smb_request: result -5, setting invalid
smb_retry: new pid=7299, generation=4

(this continued up to "generation=7")

smb_get_length: recv error = 5
smb_request: result -5, setting invalid
smb_retry: caught signal
smb_retry: caught signal

smb_proc_readdir_long: name=nspect.exe, entries=624, rcls=2, err=1
smb_refill_dircache: readdir failed, result=-23
smb_proc_readdir_long: name=\RECYCLED\*, entries=0, rcls=2, err=1
smb_refill_dircache: readdir failed, result=-23
smb_proc_readdir_long: name=\Program Files\*, entries=0, rcls=2, err=1
smb_refill_dircache: readdir failed, result=-23
smb_proc_readdir_long: name=\My Documents\*, entries=0, rcls=2, err=1
smb_refill_dircache: readdir failed, result=-23
smb_proc_readdir_long: name=\TEMP\*, entries=0, rcls=2, err=1
smb_refill_dircache: readdir failed, result=-23
smb_proc_readdir_long: name=\PAGEMGR\*, entries=0, rcls=2, err=1
smb_refill_dircache: readdir failed, result=-23
smb_proc_readdir_long: name=\VSTASCAN\*, entries=0, rcls=2, err=1
smb_refill_dircache: readdir failed, result=-23
smb_proc_readdir_long: name=\graphics\*, entries=0, rcls=2, err=1
smb_refill_dircache: readdir failed, result=-23
smb_proc_readdir_long: name=\local\*, entries=0, rcls=2, err=1
smb_refill_dircache: readdir failed, result=-23

 (followed by a bunch more similar entries)

smb_get_length: recv error = 5
smb_request: result -5, setting invalid
smb_dont_catch_keepalive: server->data_ready == NULL

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In /var/log/messages there were similar messages and some others:
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Nov  7 13:53:50 scrappy kernel: SMBFS: Win 95 bug fixes enabled 
Nov  7 13:55:16 scrappy kernel: SMBFS: Win 95 bug fixes enabled