From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 26 6:43:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pointer.raytheon.co.uk (pointer.raytheon.co.uk [193.115.14.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECCD214BD5 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 06:43:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk) Received: from rslhub.raytheon.co.uk (unverified) by pointer.raytheon.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with SMTP id ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:48:34 +0000 Received: by rslhub.raytheon.co.uk(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.2 (693.3 8-11-1998)) id 00256872.0050C573 ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:42:14 +0000 X-Lotus-FromDomain: RAYTHEONUK From: Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk To: nathan Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <00256872.0050C564.00@rslhub.raytheon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:41:39 +0000 Subject: Re: samba uptime MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Some more additions to this:- > i don't know what classifies as a "samba server", but i've been running > samba 2.0.2 on FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE in our office here... its currently at > 176 days uptime and i've not had a problem with it at all. only thing is > sometimes i make config changes and have to SIGHUP smbd & nmbd.. but > that's seldom and normal. > also.. its a ppro180 w/96 MB RAM... solid as a rock This will stay up for months yet. > as far as your "network is busy" problems... i'd look at the client > machine first... if its running win9x, try a reboot first... > i've had minor issues like that myself.. but a reboot (of the windoze > client machine) has almost always solved the problem... > i don't know for sure.. but i think it has something to do with the > WINS service and browse-mastering. > anyway... i'd bet that its not your fbsd/samba box... :) > good luck! you'd be right at saying it's not the FreeBSD box here. Windows 98/NT clients have all sorts of stupid WINS related bugs. Basically, here, users always moan that on NT, a "Network is too slow" dialog pops up all the time. This turned out to be mis-configured NT boxes. Check the client configs again and knock the wotsit parameter (TM) on the Samba server - The election winning probability one (cant remeber the name) to something silly high. This seemed to kill it for a while but it's back again recently. It seems to be fighting with the NT servers a bit. Oh well - time to install freebsd on them > Frankie Li wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm just wondering how long on average can a Samba server stay > > up without restart. Lately, I've been getting this "network is busy" > > error when I tried to access the server from a Win95 box. Such problem > > never occurred prior to this week, and I can't find anything unusual > > with the server. No hardware or software change has taken place in the > > past 6 months, and the server's load has never been pass 10%. > > > > The server configuration is: > > PII 350, 64MB of RAM, 128 Swap. > > The server has been up for 22 days (since the shutdown in winter break) > > I'm running FreeBSD 3.3-Release, Samba 2.0.6 > > > > Thank you in advance. > > > > Frankie > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Hope this helps a bit Chris Smith Raytheon Systems Limited To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message