[Samba] Intermittant browsing problems

[Jeff Bracanovich]

Hi Nick

I had a similar problem on a small (13 Win95/98 stations) network. Turned
out that the clients were timing out. You might want to look at anything
that might be slowing the name resolving. Do you notice a delay when first
browsing the network??

I ended up setting one of my Samba Servers to be a WINS server, and put it's
ip in each Windows station network config. It solved my problem. Now the
network neighborhood  pops up almost immediately.

On a another network, I've been running a local dns server with similar
results.

Jeff


----- Original Message -----
From: <nick.wilton at htz.biz>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 8:43 AM
Subject: [Samba] Intermittant browsing problems


>
> Hi!
>
> I've recently been given our company FreeBSD 4.0 UNIX server to look after
> since our sys admin left for a new job.
> Fortunately everything works fine with our Win 98/2k network except for
> occasional problems when trying to access our
> public directory when browsing the windows network. The error Windows
> explorer comes back with is "unable to connect
> to Buffy. Network is busy", with Buffy being the name of the server.
>
> Here is a copy of the log.smb set to level 3 with it working:
>
> [2002/01/30 13:32:31, 1] smbd/server.c:main(643)
>   smbd version 2.0.6 started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
>   doing parameter log file = /var/log/log.%m
>   doing parameter max log size = 50
>   doing parameter load printers = No
>   doing parameter preferred master = Yes
>   doing parameter local master = No
>   doing parameter dns proxy = No
>   doing parameter guest account = guest
>   doing parameter hosts allow = xxx.yyy.zzz.
>   doing parameter hide dot files = No
>   doing parameter map system = Yes
>   doing parameter map hidden = Yes
>   loaded services

[cut out .........]


> [2002/01/29 16:28:03, 0] lib/util_sock.c:set_socket_options(151)
>   Failed to set socket option TCP_NODELAY (Error Connection reset by peer)
> [2002/01/29 16:28:03, 2] smbd/server.c:main(735)
>   Changed root to /