[Samba] error message after long connect with windows client(s)

[John H Terpstra]

On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 todd at nhaparts.com wrote:

> I am running Samba version 2.2 on RH9 with a 800mhz w/ 384 SDRAM.
>
> My Windows XP clients can connect and map my shares to drives on their
> machines with no problems, but sometimes after being connected for a
> couple days they suddenly cannot access the share. They receive an error
> message stating that it cannot connect to the server.
>
> This is only solved by rebooting the RH server, which is problematic
> because this is in an office with around 8 clients and it also runs the
> web and email server.
>
> Any help would be *greatly* appreciated.

Update to samba-2.2.8a or samba-3.0.0, this should solve this problem.

- John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org