[Samba] How does Samba handle unexpected disconnects?

Paul Griffith paulg at cs.yorku.ca
Mon Oct 31 14:52:25 GMT 2005


Thanks for taking the time to look into this issue. This issue has
been a tough one to solve.


On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:29:13PM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 09:55 -0400, Paul Griffith wrote:
> > I can reproduce this error like clock work! The network capture should
> > be in your mailbox.
> > 
> > I can't tell if this is a network harware or software problem 
> 
> It is hard to tell anything from an the un-annotated network capture.  I
> was hoping something might stick out...
> 
> I probably won't chase this any further, but as a suggestion on how to
> read the captures, I often capture in ethereal with 'update packets in
> real time', and note the packet sequence number when error messages (or
> success) appears on the client.  You can then start comparing, and
> looking for 'last error packet' etc.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 
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Thanks
Paul


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