[Samba] Clients periodically disconnecting

[Chris St. Pierre]

Anyone have any ideas on this?  I'm really stuck scratching my head....

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Chris St. Pierre wrote:

> Samba 3.0.21c, RHEL4.
>
> About a week ago, we restarted our Samba server because nmbd had run
> amok.  Since that restart, our Apple clients have periodically
> disconnected -- by most reports, they disconnect every 15-45 minutes.
> It doesn't appear to be synchronized, i.e., every Mac on campus
> doesn't disconnect at once, but only occasionally.  They get a message
> similar to:
>
> "A server you are using is no longer available.  Do you want to
> continue trying to contact it?"
>
> (This varies by exact OS revision, of course.)
>
> Our Windows clients do not exhibit this behavior.
>
> I turned up the logging for a few users for whom this was reliably
> happening.  The following are the last few messages before it
> disconnects:
>
> [2007/02/13 10:08:57, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(288)
>  setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
> [2007/02/13 10:08:57, 5] auth/auth_util.c:debug_nt_user_token(433)
>  NT user token: (NULL)
> [2007/02/13 10:08:57, 5] auth/auth_util.c:debug_unix_user_token(454)
>   UNIX token of user 0
>   Primary group is 0 and contains 0 supplementary groups
> [2007/02/13 10:08:57, 5] smbd/uid.c:change_to_root_user(324)
>  change_to_root_user: now uid=(0,0) gid=(0,0)
> [2007/02/13 10:08:57, 5] lib/username.c:Get_Pwnam_alloc(290)
>  Finding user jrandom
> [2007/02/13 10:08:57, 5] lib/username.c:Get_Pwnam_internals(234)
>  Trying _Get_Pwnam(), username as lowercase is jrandom
> [2007/02/13 10:08:57, 5] lib/username.c:Get_Pwnam_internals(267)
>   Get_Pwnam_internals did find user [jrandom]!
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Chris St. Pierre
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Nebraska Wesleyan University
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