What does it mean ?????

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:37 +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote:
> 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?
----
No - the explanation was correct. Typically this will come from a Win2K
or WinXP client connection which will simultaneously connect to port 139
and 445 and drop one or the other as unnecessary - hence the log entry.
Samba developers sort of consider this to be rude client behavior. ;-)

If you want that type of activity to not be logged, then in the general
section, declare the smb port...

smb port = 139 #mix of Win95/98/2K/XP as Win95, Win98, WinME only
connect to port 139
or
smb port = 445 #win2K & WinXP clients only

the default is both ports are active for smb

personally, I would recommend that people not concern themselves with
the logged entries and leave it alone since it isn't broken.

If you want an in depth dissection of the ports that Microsoft uses, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832017

Craig


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