What does it mean ?????

[Edward Dekkers]

Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> Franck Y wrote:
>>
>>> I don t know waht does this thing mean.....like the "get_peer_addr "
>>>
>>> Can you excplain me thk you
>>>
>>> Oct 20 13:41:09 constellation smbd[3927]: [2005/10/20 13:41:09, 0]
>>> lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1150)
>>> Oct 20 13:41:09 constellation smbd[3927]:   getpeername failed. Error
>>> was Transport endpoint is not connected
>>
>>
>>
>> getpeername failed => failed DNS/hostname lookup.
>>
>> -- Rex
>>
> 
> No, that would be gethostbyaddr().  getpeername() is a system call
> that looks for the address of the other side (the remove side) of an
> association or socket pair.
> 
> Of course, if you're using connectionless sockets (i.e. datagrams),
> then it won't return an endpoint...  For that, you'd have to use
> recvfrom() and note the endpoint from individual requests.
> 
> -Philip
> 

OK guys, I've been following this thread, because I've had this error 
pop up for years. Initially I tried to look it up and fix it. I could 
never find the true answer and it didn't affect my samba so I ignored it.

However, it seems that now you guys actually know what this error means. 
You've given a technical (programmers?) perspective of what has happened.

Is there any chance you can convert that to lamens terms?

i.e. Does anyone know how to get rid of the error message or how my 
configuration for samba is wrong?

P.S. I've had this configuration for samba more or less since RH 5.2 
(meaning I changed things as samba changed). This error did not show up 
till RH9 or Fedora 1 from memory. It's probably caused by something 
deprecated or the like in my smb.conf, but do we have any idea what?

Regards,
Ed.
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