[Samba] The infamous read_socket_data(478) error

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Apr 12 00:08:03 GMT 2002


On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 02:06:56AM -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote:
> This error seems to have been reported numerous times on this list 
> and as far as I can there has been no feedback from the programmers...
> 
>  From a log.smbd generated by samba 2.2.3a..
> 
> [2002/02/12 17:30:03, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_data(478)
>    read_socket_data: recv failure for 4. Error = Connection reset by peer

All it's telling you is that the client disconnected. We don't
know why. We could change the message Samba gives when the
client does this but it doesn't change the fact it's something
the client does.

Jeremy.




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