[Samba] IPC connections and utmp

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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drgn65 at ufl.edu wrote:

| [root at lifesaver root]# w
|   9:51pm  up 20 days, 15:12,  3 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.09, 0.09
| USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
| scott    smb/1    192.168.0.202     7:14am  0.00s  1:56m  0.02s  smbd -D
| scott    smb/2    192.168.0.202    Mon 6am  0.00s  1:56m  0.02s  smbd -D
|
| Thats what ends up in my utmp.  So, I very rarely have an accurate picture
| of who is on the network without doing smbstatus -u user on basically
| everyone. :(
|
| I understand the IPC connection probably needs to stay open.  (I don't
fully
| know why).  Is this problem fixed in later versions of samba?  I am
running
| a moderately old version.

Try usetting a deadtime.  See smb.conf(5) for details.




cheers, jerry
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