why so many broken pipes?

[Gerald Carter]

moved to main samba list.

On Wed, 02 May 2001 05:40:35 Moeller Daniel (QI/CCE21) * wrote:
> 
> I'm running Samba 2.0.7 in serveral installations, 
> mainly on Solaris 2.6 Ultra-Sparcs. I'm getting the same 
> error message very often. It doesn't affect operation, 
> too. But I like to know why this occurs, too. Can someone
> explain it?
..
> [2001/02/27 17:14:10, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(540)
>   write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
> [2001/03/02 15:58:57, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(540)
>   write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
> [2001/03/30 18:13:47, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(540)
>   write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe

Are you using a host allow/deny line in smb.conf and not 
have reverse DNS entries clients?  Sometimes DNS timeouts
can cause the client to think the server has crashed and 
it drops the connection.





cheers, jerry
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