Marcos, As far as networking is concerned, I abuse my older machines all of time. I don't think you have a networking problem; I think it is a hardware problem, or very bad device driver settings.
"General failure reading drive C" is a bad sign. I would make a new backup of that server hard drive (do not overwrite an existing backup in case the backup fails mid-way). After getting a good backup, I would try to dump the SMART data on it and run some benchmarks or diagnostics. If the hard drive is having a hard time reading data then all sorts of secondary errors can happen as a result. Next is to inventory and review all of the hardware in the computer and make sure none of it is in conflict. Have a sound card? Pull it out ... you don't need it in a server. Check the BIOS settings. That machine has to be absolutely stable before you start adding clients to it. What OS are you running? If you are running some early form of Windows, then ditch it. You can do better with a current (or recent, but not new) Linux running with a text console. My old Linux boxes share using SAMBA just fine, and Linux is robust and easier to diagnose when hardware or software is misbehaving. Next, you need to start testing the clients and the servers together. It's hard to imagine that the clients are putting such a huge load on the server that the server is glitching - file sharing is not CPU intensive. But you want to do this in a test environment, not with the real database that everybody is using! Setup some batch files to copy and compare files to ensure that the files are not getting corrupted and to generate some load against the server. Remember, a low end Pentium machine can easily saturate a 10Mb/sec Ethernet by itself. That's almost 1MB a second of file transfer capability if you are using TCP/IP. If you have Pentium gear you probably have 100Mb/sec hardware, so that number is closer to 10 times more. Are your clients accessing this database really generating 1MB or more of data per second? I'd be interested to hear your results. Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
