win98/SCO file transfer problems

[Ahmed RAHAL]

Hi,

> I have a samba server running on a SCO openserver 5.0.5 machine in a
> windows 98SE network. Logins and home directories work great, but I get
> errors whenever I try to transfer files to the server. They seem to go
> somewhat slow and about 80% of the time fail because "the network resource
> is no longer available". Is this a misconfiguration? these are the errors
I
> get in my logs:
>
> [2000/10/26 16:02:55, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(213)
>   get_share_modes: process 3542 no longer exists
> [2000/10/26 16:02:55, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(241)
>   get_share_modes: file with dev 12a inode 73267 empty
> [2000/10/26 16:02:58, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(213)
>   get_share_modes: process 3542 no longer exists
> [2000/10/26 16:02:58, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(241)
>   get_share_modes: file with dev 12a inode 65929 empty
>
> I tried sifting through the logs, but couldn't find any definite answers.
> Any help is greatly appreciated.

As far as I know, this is due to big problems with SCO's Network adapter
settings. I was told that this happends if 2 stations do not correctly
detect
half/full duplex modes.
I had this between SCO 5.0.5 and HP9000 servers, also between SCO 5.0.5
and some PC's ... This is not an Samba issue : try doing FTP from that host
of a large (well 1Mb should be enough) file. If transfer rate is anything
below 700 kbyte/sec (and often close to 10kb/s) then this is a problem
with networking.

Let me know if you found a solution :)

bye

A. Rahal