Connection reset by peer

MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1) don_mccall at hp.com
Tue Dec 26 13:23:13 GMT 2000


hallo, Mikhail,
Telling you WHAT the message means is no problem - Samba had a connection
open to the pc, and had hung a read on the socket (file descriptor
representing the connection) and was expecting information back; what samba
found was an error return when it tried to read from the socket, indicating
that the connection had been reset FROM the client side.  That is to say,
last thing samba knew, the connection was good, it send something to the
client, and when it tried to read back reply from the client, the connection
was gone.  WHY? that's of course the real question, and for that I have no
answer.  A couple of questions that might help others on this list make some
guesses:
1. when this happens, WHAT does the client have to do to recover?
   - can the client (win98) just try to access (mount) the shares again, and
it works?
   - or does the client have to reboot, or what?
2. when this happens do ALL the workstations have the same problem, or is is
just one or
    two, while the rest of the clients are still fine?
3. Is there any indication in the system logs, or your network statistics,
that there are any
    excessive tcpip retries or errors around the time of the failure, or any
other resource 
    shortages?  I'm not familiar with Debian Linux, but perhaps someone on
the list could 
    point you to the utilities Debian supplies to check this out.
Hope this helps,
Don

-----Original Message-----
From: Romanenko M.A. [mailto:mikhail at angg.ru]
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 12:50 AM
To: samba at us5.samba.org
Subject: Connection reset by peer


I administer Samba 2.0.7 on Debian Linux (kernel 2.2.17, libc6 2.2). When
trying to mount samba shares from Windows 98 workstations sometime the
process failed with error message:

[2000/12/26 11:24:28, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_data(477)
  read_socket_data: recv failure for 4. Error = Connection reset by peer

I've looked throwgh the samba, samba-binaries, and samba-technical mailing
lists since 1999 and found a lot of questions on the subject but no answer,
which could help to solve the problem. As samba guru keeps silence my
question is to thouse who wrote to the lists earlier and know now how to
solve the problem.

Help, please. 

Thank you, Mikhail.







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