[Samba] kicked users and login troubles (write failure in writing to client and Connection reset by peer)

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:53:19PM +0200, Thijs Hakkenberg wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> One particular user is kicked quite often (espescially during the usage 
> of Outlook). When she tries to login she isn't very succesfull. The 
> serverlog show this:
> 
> Jul 13 10:41:14 server smbd[12277]: [2006/07/13 10:41:14, 0] 
> lib/util_sock.c:write_data(554)
> Jul 13 10:41:14 server smbd[12277]:   write_data: write failure in 
> writing to client 192.168.1.101. Error Connection reset by peer
> Jul 13 10:41:14 server smbd[12277]: [2006/07/13 10:41:14, 0] 
> lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(762)
> Jul 13 10:41:14 server smbd[12277]:   Error writing 61503 bytes to 
> client. -1. (Connection reset by peer)

"Connection reset by peer" means the client sent a TCP RST 
packet as it thinks the connection is closed. Check your
networking hw.

> I've tried disabling the oplocks; because I suspect the problem lies 
> herein. However; reloading the config file gives me these errors:
> 
> Jul 13 10:48:36 server smbd[9426]: [2006/07/13 10:48:36, 0] 
> param/loadparm.c:map_parameter(2650)
> Jul 13 10:48:36 server smbd[9426]:   Unknown parameter encountered: "z 
> browseable"
> Jul 13 10:48:36 server smbd[9426]: [2006/07/13 10:48:36, 0] 
> param/loadparm.c:lp_do_parameter(3399)
> Jul 13 10:48:36 server smbd[9426]:   Ignoring unknown parameter "z 
> browseable"
> Jul 13 10:48:36 server smbd[9426]: [2006/07/13 10:48:36, 0] 
> param/loadparm.c:map_parameter(2650)
> Jul 13 10:48:36 server smbd[9426]:   Unknown parameter encountered: "3 
> oplocks"
> Jul 13 10:48:36 server smbd[9426]: [2006/07/13 10:48:36, 0] 
> param/loadparm.c:lp_do_parameter(3399)
> Jul 13 10:48:36 server smbd[9426]:   Ignoring unknown parameter "3 oplocks"

Looks like memory corruption ? Run memtest ?

Jeremy.