Xp Pro dropping Network Connection

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Hi

newbie so excuse me if its already been answered, I have searched.

I have a share accessible from XP.

However if I go for lunch and come back when I click on the share in Explorer it says its not accessible. When I click on it again it works.

Its like the network card in the Suse server is going to sleep but I cant see any settings for it. I know where they are in XP and wonder if they are somewhere in openSuse? Or if there is someother explanantion.

Thanks

Peter :slight_smile:

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Normally, file sharing between openSUSE and Windows XP is done using Samba. You could post your Samba setup in openSUSE which might help. There are many issues that can cause a share to not work between openSUSE and Windows XP, but not sure what would cause the problem that you describe. I might suggest you look at my Samba writeup for openSUSE 11.2 at:

Samba SMB file sharing in openSUSE 11.2 - openSUSE Forums

Thank You,

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Don’t do windows on my network, but it could be that samba serer has a timeout that forces windows to refresh the share.

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Hi thanks for your input.

I have checked the document - very well written and presented. I have made the changes and will see how it goes.

My SMB.cfg did not have this line:

socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192

which seems to have some relevance to the problem.

Thanks Again

Peter

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voodooman2 I was happy to help. If at all possible, let me know if the line “socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192” really did make any difference. So often, one is not quite sure just what the fix might have been.

Thank You,

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On Fri June 11 2010 02:56 pm, jdmcdaniel3 wrote:

>
> voodooman2 I was happy to help. If at all possible, let me know if the
> line “socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY
> SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192” really did make any difference. So
> often, one is not quite sure just what the fix might have been.
>
> Thank You,
>
>
For modern kernels, the only socket option that makes much sense is
TCP_NODELAY, which is the default. In fact setting “SO_RCVBUF=8192” is
reported to be down right harmful.
See the writeup on Socket Options here:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/speed.html

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green

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Hi

unfortunately I am still having a problem with losing the network connection. I thought it was ok.

I’m going to setup a share on the XP box and see if its kept alive.

On the site where the box is going, I setup all the clients to share the same MyDocuments on the server. Perhaps this keeps the connection alive.

I am going to test it here in the office.

Thanks

Peter :wink: