IPC$ entries not deleted from connections.tdb?

[Yannick Bergeron]

The samba child process doesn't exist anymore on the server or the windows 
workstation is not running. I suppose those two examples should not let IPC$ 
connections between Samba and the client.

connections.tdb has been increasing in size because of this behaviour. We 
are running in an environment with approx 3000 users, 700 actives 
connections during the daytime and we try to give the service as long as we 
can (currently on our 24 days without interruption of service).

>From: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
>To: Yannick Bergeron <burgergold at hotmail.com>
>CC: samba-technical at samba.org
>Subject: Re: IPC$ entries not deleted from connections.tdb?
>Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:04:26 +1000
>
>On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 07:55 -0400, Yannick Bergeron wrote:
> > We are experiencing this issue with samba-3.0.11 and samba-3.0.13. When 
>a
> > win32 workstation is disconnecting all of his network drive from samba, 
>IPC$
> > connections are not removed from the tdb.
> >
> > Are you experiencing the same behaviour? If it's the case, we would need 
>to
> > remove every connection owned by an exiting samba child process from
> > connections.tdb.
>
>What makes you think the IPC$ connection has been dropped?  If the
>connection is still alive, why should we remove the entry?
>
>Andrew Bartlett
>
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