[Samba] recv failure for 4: error = connection reset by peer

[Matthew Easton]

On Saturday 13 August 2005 06:16, Chris Lounsbury wrote:
> Hello list,
> I am looking for some help with an error message that keeps showing up in
> our log files. I searched the archive and found this error message
> mentioned a few times in regards to windows xp clients and setting the smb
> ports = 445.  We are running only windows 2000 clients and have recently
> begun seeing this error message in our logs
> lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_data(384)  read_socket_data: recv failure for
> 4. Error = Connection reset by peer I'm not sure if this fix is for all
> windows versions or only xp?
>
> We are running a red hat linux enterprise 3 server with samba version 3.0.9
> as our PDC with 7 windows 2000 stations. Any ideas on what might be causing
> this error in the logs, so far we are not having any problems with logons
> as of now. Thanks for all the help
> Chris

You can simply ignore the error. It's telling you that the client has refused 
to talk on one port because it succeeded on the other.