[Samba] Unreliable connection to Samba PDC - Connections get lost, Roaming Profiles do not sync, Files can't be written, etc..

[Tom H. Lautenbacher]

On 2011-03-30 23:26, Gaiseric Vandal wrote:
> Is this with one Windows 7 X64 client or all of them?
>
> Do XP machines have the same problem?
>
> Do the disconnects occur after the machine has been in sleep mode?
>
> On 03/30/2011 04:21 PM, Tom H. Lautenbacher wrote:
>> Hello all!
>>
>> I am having severe problems with my Samba PDC.
>>
>> 1. My Roaming profile in 3 out of 10 times does not get synchronized 
>> correctly with the server - without any obvious reason. This 
>> sometimes destroys my profile by losing data and commonly from then 
>> on the profile is never again synchronized correctly. A backup 
>> restore of the computer is necessary.
>>
>> 2. When I edit a document (e.g. word .docx) which is located on a 
>> samba-share, sometimes when I want to save it to a new (!) file name, 
>> Word says that it can't save to the new file name "because the 
>> document is in use by someone else". Word creates the new file name 
>> anyway, but it remains 0kb. When I select "save" again and chose to 
>> overwrite the new 0kb file, it does it without any problem.
>>
>> 3. Sometimes the connection to the PDC get's lost in the middle of a 
>> day's session. Thus all my network drives get disconnected and I have 
>> to reboot the client to get connected again. If in this time I had 
>> Outlook 2007 opened (my outlook.pst lives on a network share, too), I 
>> have to close Outlook and reboot to be able to edit anything in 
>> Outlook again.
>>
>> What I have tried:
>> 1. Changed TP-Cable between client and server
>> 2. Changed Network Switch between client and server (and switched 
>> from 100MBit to Gigabit)
>> 3. Upgraded Samba to the (then) newest version, which was 1 year 
>> newer than the previous one
>> 4. Re-added the client to the domain
>> Nothing helped... ;-(
>>
>> What is going on here?
>> The client that connects to the PDC is Windows 7, 64bit
>>
>> ANY ideas, hints, approaches are HIGHLY APPRECIATED!!
>>
>> Tom
>
Hello Gaiseric Vandal,

thank you for your time!

 > Is this with one Windows 7 X64 client or all of them?
 > Do XP machines have the same problem?

I am having only a Windows 7 X64 client in this network at this time 
speaking

 > Do the disconnects occur after the machine has been in sleep mode?
No, the machine never goes to sleep mode!

Cheers
Tom