[H-GEN] Samba problem

David Duffy avd at audiovisualdevices.com.au
Tue Apr 16 22:02:13 EDT 2002


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I asked:
>I've had a small problem with Samba since I upgraded my server from
>RH6.2 on a P1-133 to RH7.1 on a K6-750. When I use a certain 16-bit
>Windows application on my Win98Se machines, the new box sometimes
>refuses to let it save files to (server) disk. If I try it again, it works
>fine.
>Sometimes I need to try a few times before it works. Where should I be
>looking for a solution for this? Would it be permissions? Can anyone
>recommend a support person/company that is not over the top price-wise?
>I use up2date at least once a week to keep the RH7.1 machine current.

Tony replied:
>Have a look at the debuglevel entry in smb.conf (see man smb.conf),
>temporarily change this to a higher value (4) and try to save again,
>hopefully it will fail and the log.whateveryourmachineis file will have the
>details of what went wrong.  Remember to change the debug back or your log
>files will fill up.

Ok, the log file says that when I tried to open the file concerned, the error
"Resource temporarily unavailable" occurred. What does that mean?
Regards...
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