[Samba] What does this error message mean?

[John H Terpstra]

On Thursday 25 August 2005 11:07, Don wrote:
> I am also getting these errors.  From my reading of the archives it
> seems to me that these errors are usually blamed on either :
>
> a) faulty network hardware or
> b) reverse DNS issues

Suggest you set in the smb.conf [global]:

	smb ports = 139

This may resolve the problem. Please report your findings back to this list.

- John T.

>
> Can someone who knows confirm any other common causes for these errors?
>
> I'm frustrated because I'm not using DNS, I'm using "host lmhosts bcast"
> and my server is using NIS and has a full /etc/hosts listing for all
> hosts on the internal network, so I can't see DNS being the problem.  As
> well, I've checked 'ifconfig' on my server and another linux box from
> which I've been doing tests and they both say 0 errors and 0 dropped.
> I'm not sure how else I should be verifying my network.
>
> These errors seem to be fairly common, given how much they are
> reported.  So, yeah, I'd sure like to solve them too.
>
> Mine appear to happen about every 30 minutes very repeatably... in my
> log for this morning, for example, I have these errors appearing at
> 3:23, 3:54, 4:26, 4:58, 5:31, 6:02, 6:34, 7:06... its every 32 minutes
> or so... makes me feel like I'm in a battlestar galactica episode.
>
>
> Don
>
> Bahya NASSR EDDINE wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Please, what does this message mean: "getpeername
> >failed. Error was Transport endpoint
> >is not connected"?
> >
> >I get the following in my log.smbd file each time I
> >try to log to my samba domain from a Windows XP
> >client:
> >
> >  [2005/08/24 09:49:09, 0]
> >lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1150)
> >    getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint
> >is not connected
> >  [2005/08/24 09:49:09, 0]
> >lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(430)
> >    write_socket_data: write failure. Error =
> >Connection reset by peer
> >  [2005/08/24 09:49:09, 0]
> >lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(455)
> >    write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 25:
> > ERRNO = Connection reset by peer
> >  [2005/08/24 09:49:09, 0]
> >lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(647)
> >    Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. (Connection
> >reset by peer)
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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