Restarting SMB services?

[jamescecorn]

I have an SMB share on my win7 box that i use for my HDPC's media library. I'm in the process of converting my DVD library to h.264. I often have DVDs ripping from various machines around the house, several of which are macs. often, with large quantities of transfers (I havent narrowed it down, but typically anything more than 10 +1gb files) will crash the SMB share.

the win7 box is still running, and media center still functions. but, the SMB share will no longer mount on the mac boxes.

so, i guess that is the round-about way of asking how do i restart SMB without rebooting the win7 box (which does fix the problem)?

 

[schan]

I have an SMB share on my win7 box that i use for my HDPC's media library. I'm in the process of converting my DVD library to h.264. I often have DVDs ripping from various machines around the house, several of which are macs. often, with large quantities of transfers (I havent narrowed it down, but typically anything more than 10 +1gb files) will crash the SMB share.

the win7 box is still running, and media center still functions. but, the SMB share will no longer mount on the mac boxes.

so, i guess that is the round-about way of asking how do i restart SMB without rebooting the win7 box (which does fix the problem)?

If I understand the issue correctly, this should take care of it:

Open up the Services console: services.msc

Restart the "Workstation" service.

Out of curiosity, when you say "SMB share no longer mount on the mac boxes"....why not?

Wells anyways, I hope this helps.

 

[jamescecorn]

If I understand the issue correctly, this should take care of it:

Open up the Services console: services.msc

Restart the "Workstation" service.

Out of curiosity, when you say "SMB share no longer mount on the mac boxes"....why not?

Wells anyways, I hope this helps.

thanks. i'll have to wait for it to crash again to try it.

to answer your question, i get an error mid-file transfer saying the 'operation cannot be completed'. the transfer fails. the share is still mounted, but the contents of all directories at the root of the share are empty. i can unmount the share. but, attempts to re-mount fail with little more than 'error code' and an obscure error number. (i don't recall the error number, but i looked it up and it was very generic).

 

[jamescecorn]

well, i did find the culprit. not sure WHY it was causing it to crash tho. but, should be easy enough to avoid in the future.

mymovies3 in media center was automatically adding content to the directories i was copying to. i guess one service or another didnt care for that. disabling the watch folders until the transfers are complete is keeping everyone happy.

thanks.