[Samba] Read failure for 4. Error = connection reset by peer.

[abartlet at dp.samba.org]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 06:44:35PM -0400, Jason Valenzuela wrote:
> I am having a SERIOUS problem with our new 2.2.5 server. In fact I will 
> probably be forced to move to a Windows 2000 Server platform, as the samba 
> server is practically useless.  Work on any files on the share cannot be 
> done without major risk of losing data. I get these two errors all day:
> 
> [2002/09/19 21:04:21, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_data(436)
>    read_data: read failure for 4. Error = Connection reset by peer
> 
> and
> 
> [2002/09/20 00:58:43, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_data(436)
>    read_data: read failure for 4. Error = Connection timed out

You have a serious problem with your network.  There is very little
a server can do if the clients 'go away'.  Do however check that
you are not using one of the bad releases of nss_ldap, and double
check that 2.2.6pre2 doesn't fix anything.

Assuming you rule out software, start looking for bad network gear.

Andrew Bartlett