Users get network timeout errors

[Andrew Bartlett]

James Simons wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running Samba 2.2.2 on RH 7.2.  It has been running error free for
> about 4 months now and I love it.  Last night at about 8:00 it started
> acting up.  When a Windows 2000 user tries to log on to the server they
> get this error message "the semaphore timeout period has expired."   I
> have checked the status or Samba and it is running.  When I check  the
> log.smbd file it says that the server is running as the primary
> controller without any error.  The other log file is very difficult for
> me to make out, but I have included it here in the hope that someone can
> decifer it and help me out.  I desperatley need to get my server back up
> and running as quickly as possible so my users can log in and start working.

Does restarting Samba fix it?  I think we might have an issue somewhere
in the locking code, but I've never pinned anything down.

Andrew Bartlett

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