Samba Problems turn out to be ??

[Bill Sconce]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:37:04 -0400
"c.e.smith" <cesmith at metrocast.net> wrote:

> The Samba Problems are solved it turns out that the nick card was going bad
> at first I could ping out  then later I could do nothing I was getting no
> ping return when checking from the rest of the network even though it picked
> up a dhcp address must have failed just after dhcp.  hardware problems suck
> cause they lead you astray for long periods of time some times


Oh boy.

This was exactly the sequence of events on the Linksys card I wrote about
when we were discussing bad NICs a little while back.

You could ping it to start with and then it would lock up later.  If the
manufacturer had purposely set out do devise a card which would waste the
maximal time in the field they could hardly have done better than Linksys
did with those NICs.


With all empathy,

Bill