win xp clients randomly don't acquire shares

[FERRARI MARCO]

Hi.
I am still running Samba version 2.2.8a.
Everything was fine with host based security, then it was deemed insufficient even for a development box.

I've got :

workgroup = hp
security = share
encrypt passwords = yes
local master = no

People can generally get to the shared dirs, but sometimes they aren't authenticated and corespondingly I get:

Denied connection from tr
where tr is a hostname.

I believe I should change the timeout but I get confused on the many manuals, without finding a full parameter list.

Furthermore, is log level = 3 still a valid setting ?

The box tends to be overloaded and we just planned a 2GB to 6GB RAM upgrade.

TIA,

Marco

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

log level -3 is a valid setting as far as I know.

Samba 3.0 is a bit more robust and secure and might help with the issue without additional memory.

SEP