[Samba] Vista clients having Issues Copying files from Samba Server

[John H Terpstra]

Anthony Giggins wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm running samba-3.0.33 (samba-3.0.33-3.15.el5_4) On Centos 5.4 and some
>> files have issues being copied from the Samba server to the Vista (Service
>> Pack 1) clients local disk via Windows Explorer, copying too the Samba
>> server also has no issues and copying via the CMD prompt has no problem,
>> I'm getting the following errors
>>
>> 1. Invalid MS-DOS Function
>> http://seven.dorksville.net/gallery/v/Misc+Photos/image001.png.html
>> &
>> 2. invalid file handle (When you click Try Again)
>> http://seven.dorksville.net/gallery/v/Misc+Photos/image002.png.html
>>
>> It will then cycle through these 2 errors each time you click try again.
>>
>> Windows XP does not have any issues with the same files and other files
>> also dont have an issue to the Vista Clients.
>>
>> There are also the following logs generated on the server that correspond
>> to these errors
>>
>>  lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(761)  Error writing 75 bytes to client. -1.
>> (Broken pipe)
>>  lib/util_sock.c:write_data(562)  write_data: write failure in writing to
>> client 192.168.0.237. Error Broken pipe
>>  lib/util_sock.c:write_data(562)  write_data: write failure in writing to
>> client 192.168.0.240. Error Broken pipe
>>
>> Any help or suggestions would be greatly apprieciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anthony
>>     
>
>
> Seeing as I got not replies I went and upgraded to 3.2.15 from sernet
>
> http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/tested/centos/5/repodata/index.html
>
> And I'm seeing the same errors on the vista side but here are the logs from
> the server,
>
> Dec 13 11:16:39 newsrv smbd[32555]: [2009/12/13 11:16:39,  0]
> lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_with_timeout(939)
> Dec 13 11:16:39 newsrv smbd[32555]: [2009/12/13 11:16:39,  0]
> lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr_internal(1676)
> Dec 13 11:16:39 newsrv smbd[32555]:   getpeername failed. Error was
> Transport endpoint is not connected
> Dec 13 11:16:39 newsrv smbd[32555]:   read_socket_with_timeout: client
> 0.0.0.0 read error = Connection reset by peer.
>
>
> are there any known issues with Vista?
> and is there any known working minimum version?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anthony
Please update to Samba 3.4.3 or later. Many Vista and Windows 7 support
related issues have been addressed during the 3.4.x series.

Firstly, if the Samba logs note an invalid function all, that may mean
an upgrade to a more recent version of Samba is needed.  When a Windows
client notes an invalid function call or an invalid file handle the
cause may be problems in the network transport layer.

Secondly, note what the Samba server log message says. Short translation
is: "I was taking to the client, but the client went away and did not
respond!"   The client dropped the connection.  In all likeliness this
is not a Samba problem and may actually be a network problem.  It is a
problem regularly seen with low-cost ethernet interfaces and cheap
ether-switches.

Kindest,
John T.