Samba messages in system log

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Mar 9 05:57:49 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 22:13 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> Any guru can explain to me what is the meaning of this two rows in 
> system log??
> 
> Mar  7 16:54:42 Fedora smbd[7099]:   getpeername failed. Error was 
> Transport endpoint is not connected
> Mar  7 16:54:42 Fedora smbd[7099]: [2005/03/07 16:54:42, 0] 
> lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1000)
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My understanding is that a Windows 2000/XP system will simultaneously
connect to ports 445 and 139 and when it establishes connection on port
445, it will drop the connection at port 139 which results in the log
item. It is an informational entry and not a critical item.
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> Is it connected to teh fact that sometimes I cannot connect to my Windows shares from the Linux box????
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No

Craig




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