[Samba] write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 5: ERRNO = connection

[Joel Hammer]

This comes from the archives, might be relevant:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=101126952214081

Basically, in their situation, it was a name resolution issue.
Is there a DNS not working anymore, etc.?
Joel

On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:08:43PM +0800, Anke & Max wrote:
> Gidday All
> I've got a problem accessing my schools samba server. When I left Friday
> everything was working but there had been a power cut overnight and no
> access this morning. The problem occurs both from pc's (win98) that are
> setup for domain logins and pc's that are still peer to peer. Samba is the
> primary domain controller.
> 
> I'm way over my depth in here Can ANYONE help? PLEASE
> 
> >From /var/log/samba/log.smb I get:
> 
> [2002/02/02  18:09:52, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641)
>     smbd version 2.0.10 started.
>     Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
> [2002/02/02  18:12:36, 0]  lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(540)
>     write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 5: ERRNO = connection
> reset by peer
> [2002/02/02  18:12:36, 0]  lib/util_sock.c:send.smb(754)
>     Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. Exiting
> 
> When connecting from a PEER pc the error is the same except for "ERRNO =
> connection reset by $"
> 
> >From the console I got:
> 
> [2002/02/02  18:12:36, 0]  lib/debug.c:check_log_size(314)
>     check_log_size: open of debug file /var/log/samba/log.smb failed
>     using console
> 
> The log was large so I cp log.smb to log.smb.old and then deleted the
> contents of log.smb
> 
> Hoping someone has some idea of what I've done/has happened
> 
> TIA
> rgrds
> max
> 
> Some more info. Mandrake 8.0, using webmin 0.84 to admin
> On the domain controlled pc, it gives me the standard failed to provide valid username or
> password but on the peer pc, it gives me a network is busy error.
> 
> As well another error on bootup that may be unrelated is:
> Feb 2 17:59:14 files sendmail:/usr/sbin/sendmail:error while loading shared
> libraries: libsfio.so.1999: cannot load shared object files: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> 
> 
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