Samba browse for short time

Hi all! I have a smb server on my mandrake 9.2. When I access it from
another PC running win_me, I can browse my shares perfectly but for few
seconds only (30 sec?) and then the windows browser stalls. If I force the
windows browser to close, I can browse again and stall and so on...

I checked on the samba server side : no error mesage in the logs, samba
server is still running. Any hint to solve this annoying behaviour?

tropique

Tropique Studio <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hi all! I have a smb server on my mandrake 9.2. When I access it from
> another PC running win_me, I can browse my shares perfectly but for few
> seconds only (30 sec?) and then the windows browser stalls. If I force the
> windows browser to close, I can browse again and stall and so on...

> I checked on the samba server side : no error mesage in the logs, samba
> server is still running. Any hint to solve this annoying behaviour?

I'd do the following:
- Check for samba rpm updates for your distro and apply them.
- Check for M$ updates and apply them.

If this doesn't help, switch on debugging (smb.conf) and see what
that tells.

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Tropique Studio wrote:
> Hi all! I have a smb server on my mandrake 9.2. When I access it from
> another PC running win_me, I can browse my shares perfectly but for few
> seconds only (30 sec?) and then the windows browser stalls. If I force the
> windows browser to close, I can browse again and stall and so on...
>
> I checked on the samba server side : no error mesage in the logs, samba
> server is still running. Any hint to solve this annoying behaviour?
>
> tropique
a network trace with tcpdump might also be in order here.

Neil

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