[Samba] Error was Transport endpoint is not connected

Tue Oct 19 07:39:42 MDT 2010

The following may help "explain" the error:

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_Myths

So if you copy the file it is OK, but if the backup job runs an 
integrity check first it fails?  What is involved in the integrity 
check?  Is it somehow opening a connection to the server before starting 
the integrity check?

On 10/19/2010 03:05 AM, robert.gehr wrote:
> I tried it with "smb ports 139" to no avail. Same problem.
> The backup job takes that long because the windows box first runs an
> integrity check. If I just copy the file manually it takes a couple of
> minutes. As already mentioned the other samba server 3.4.7 works without
> any problems.
>
> What does that error message actually mean? Does it mean a network error
> has occurred, the server has run into a timeout, the server can no
> longer resolve the name of the client or what?
>
> Ideas are welcome.
>
> Rob
>
> On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 14:57 +0200, Gaiseric Vandal wrote:
>    
>> Did you try changing smb.conf on the NAS to be port 139 only?
>>
>> Also, it seems that 55 GB should not take one hour to copy (55 GBytes is
>> 440 Gbit, and at 1 Gbit/sec  and 60 secs / min, the transfer sohuld take
>> about minutes-  at least in theory.)
>>
>> I am guessing it is dropping because it tries to reestablish a
>> connection part way through the transfer.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/15/2010 07:12 AM, robert.gehr wrote:
>>      
>>> Nice try. The backup fails exactly the moment the message appears in the
>>> log. So I would say it is something to worry about.
>>>
>>> Has really no one any ideas why this all of a sudden comes up.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any hints
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 08:41 +0200, Daniel Müller wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> This message only says: I established to one of the ports 139 or 445
>>>> and dropped the other.
>>>> It is nothing to trouble about.
>>>>
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>>>> Von: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Im
>>>> Auftrag von Gaiseric Vandal
>>>> Gesendet: Montag, 11. Oktober 2010 16:48
>>>> An: samba at lists.samba.org
>>>> Betreff: Re: [Samba] Error was Transport endpoint is not connected
>>>>
>>>> By default samba listens on two TCP ports-  445 and 139.  You can
>>>> specify this in smb.conf
>>>>
>>>>            smb ports = 445 139
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 445 is the newer smb  over tcp.    139 is the older smb over netbios
>>>> over tcp/ip.       445 was for Windows 2000 and newer clients..  I am
>>>> not sure why samba enables 445 by default since as far as I know it does
>>>> not support smb-over-tcp (without the NBT/netbios over tcp stuff.)    If
>>>> you  set "smb ports = 139" in your smb.conf you should see endpoint
>>>> messages disappear.
>>>>
>>>> I think what happens is Win 2000 (and newer)  clients will initially try
>>>> to connect on port 445, find it isn't really compatible, and then "dump
>>>> down" to NBT on port 139.
>>>>
>>>> So your NAS may be occasionally connecting on port 139 without problems
>>>> and occasionally connecting on port 445, and which point it fails.
>>>>
>>>> OR-  the "endpoint" errors may be completely unrelated, but you just
>>>> don't look for when when the NAS is working.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is the NAS part of the domain?  Is it a windows or linux/samba based device?
>>>>
>>>> My samba server is a PDC.  XP clients in the domain connect with no
>>>> problems regardless of  if smb ports is 139 only or 139 + 445.   XP/Win7
>>>> clients NOT in the domain can't connect to shares if 445 is disabled,
>>>> which indicates they are connecting to 445 1st.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/11/2010 08:57 AM, robert.gehr wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> Hello All
>>>>>
>>>>> I used to back up a Mssql database (about 55GB) to a samba share without
>>>>> any problems. The samba server "Server-A" was running version 3.4.7
>>>>> We just got one of those "Netgear ReadyNas3200" things and I tried to
>>>>> backup up to a share there which sometimes works and sometimes not in
>>>>> wich case I get the following error:
>>>>>
>>>>> ----------------snip---------------
>>>>>
>>>>> [2010/10/08 21:32:26.937834,  0]
>>>>> lib/util_sock.c:474(read_fd_with_timeout)
>>>>> [2010/10/08 21:32:26.966404,  0]
>>>>> lib/util_sock.c:1432(get_peer_addr_internal)
>>>>>      getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected
>>>>>      read_fd_with_timeout: client 0.0.0.0 read error = Connection reset by
>>>>> peer.
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------------snap-----------------
>>>>>
>>>>> The samba version on the ReadyNas is 3.5.4
>>>>>
>>>>> On the windows side nothing has changed apart form the destination to
>>>>> the new share. The ReadyNas performs pretty well and I do not get any
>>>>> network errors or otherwise. To rule out some network problem I exported
>>>>> a nfs share on the ReadyNas which I mounted on "Server-A", created a
>>>>> share on "Server-A" that points to the nfs-mount and ran a backup. No
>>>>> problems and no errors.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas which buttons to push in order to get a reliable backup going
>>>>> again? From what I read this usually points to a problem on the client
>>>>> side but nothing has changed there. I could of course use the
>>>>> "Server-A:smb->nfs-mount:ReadyNas" solution but this is not what I want.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Rob
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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