Lose shared network resource

Hello,
I have a problem with the (exported) sharing of network resources. Initially i've used a sever with RedHat 7.3 kernel 2.4 now i've installed Scientific Linux 5.5 with kernel 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5PAE with Samba version 3.0.33-3.29.el5_5.1.

The problem is that I lose the network connection periodically, about 10 minutes!

I initially thought the problem was caused by a misconfiguration of samba version of sl, that I installed on a client machine with windows 2000 the "Microsoft Windows Services for Unix" in order to use nfs connection exported from linux server, but the problema arise equally.

It's a serious problem for me because the disconnection of a mapped drive on w2k (connected via smb or nfs) is causing the crash of a basic application that tries to detect the presence every second of a new file in shared resource.

This problem was not present with the older version of linux !!!

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Best Regards 
Francesco Alfano

(good to Cc [email protected] though it might not have anything to do with cifs in this case)

Are you using dhcp? If yes, it looks like a problem due to IPaddress not being persistent (possibly a bug in dhcpcd).

Are you able to reproduce this problem if you use static IP? Also, see if the problem is persisting if you use dhclient instead of dhcpcd.

Suresh Jayaraman

I seem to have misread. It looks like the client in this case is Windows box and the Server is Linux. So, if you suspect any issues with Samba, please report to Samba mailing list. This is not a appropriate list to discuss non-kernel/non-cifs client issues.

Thanks,

Suresh Jayaraman