network is busy : Samba Server with RedHat

[Anthony Ewell]

Hi Patrick,

   I had the same problem.  Here is how I fixed it:

1) bumped server to 128 (265 in one instance) of RAM

2) use only XFce (www.xfce.org) as my GUI

3) fixed all my mac addresses to fixed IP in /etc/dhcpd.conf

4) removed all netbios setting in dhcpd.conf except:
                option netbios-node-type 1;
(This turn off wins)

5) created /etc/hosts based on dhcpd.conf fixed mac's

6)  set smb.conf name resolution to:
                 name resolve order = host bcas

7) on the windows machines TURN OFF WINS.  Use
DNS to resolve names (don't forget a simple
DNS on your server that basically only tells about
itself).

8) Verify WINS is off and that your fixed IP's are being used
on your Windows clients.  Do a "release" and "renew" with "winipcfg"
or "ipconfig" depending on OS.

Good Luck,
--Tony


Patrick Boucher wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
>   I have a File Server, Running Samba on RedHat 7.0
> Everything Works fines,  It have 64 megs of ram, and around 15 peoples
> using it.
> But sometimes, in the morning when people try to access it's Share
> 
> it gives the error msgs:    NETWORK IS BUSY.
> 
> All my user get logon using a Windows NT PDC.
> To enable my user to connect to Samba, I "play" with the computer for a
> While..
> Try to get in.. Get the error msgs a couple of time.. and After some
> time like 3 or 4 mins I manage to "map" the share.. After that, It is
> working for for all day !!
> 
> See my logs Below if it could help
> 
> [2001/03/05 17:47:13, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(540)
>   write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
> [2001/03/05 17:47:13, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(566)
>   write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 6: ERRNO = Broken pipe
> [2001/03/05 17:47:13, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(754)
>   Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. Exiting
> [2001/03/05 17:47:26, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(540)
>   write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
> [2001/03/05 17:47:26, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(566)
>   write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 6: ERRNO = Broken pipe
> [2001/03/05 17:47:26, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(754)
>   Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. Exiting
> 
> Thank you for your time.  ( Please send me email, I am not a Member of
> the list)
> 
> 
> --
> Patrick Boucher
> 
> 
>