[plug] Samba, delayed write failed, and can't become connected user

[sothisistheinternet]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:17 PM, sothisistheinternet
<sothisistheinternet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Daniel,
>
> I've done a bunch of trouble shooting and have been able to rule the
> switch out, but perhaps not the onboard NIC:

Bought a PCI nic today. As of now, there's a new NIC and new CAT5
cable and the samba server is connected directly to a router ethernet
port, not the switch, as is the PC that's been having the most issues.

Ari

>
> I swapped in a different switch and cables - no effect
> I used the manufacturer's diagnostics and checked the filesystems on
> the drives - nothing wrong
> Restarting smb fixes the issue - until then, no computers can connect
> Problem began just after installing FC10 after having been using FC5 for ages
>
> Any other ideas would be very much appreciated. It's driving me nuts
> and causing problems with my downloads.
>
> Ari
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Daniel Foote <freefoote at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>>> Anyone? I made the FC10 system the master browser and thought that had
>>> corrected the problem, think the problem was being caused by
>>> elections. It was good for about 36 hours then during the night two
>>> more episodes of 'delayed write failed' during PTP file transfers,
>>> each require a sudo service smb restart to get samba to let other
>>> computers on the network access it again.
>>
>> The last time I saw something like this, it was caused by a gigabit
>> network card (windows client machine) on a 100mbit switch, connected
>> to a Linux server (samba) with a 100mbit network card. Something
>> related to the gigabit card, the cabling, or the switch caused it to
>> 'micro-dropout' (I estimate 10ms or less) - just long enough to
>> disconnect the Windows client from the samba server. In this case, it
>> caused this Windows machine to emit the 'delayed write failed'
>> message, and also released locks that the machine had on certain
>> shared files, causing other issues.
>>
>> Not sure if that will help in your case... but something to consider.
>>
>> Daniel Foote.
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