[Samba] Windows XP and Samba 3.0.22 -- don't mix?

[Logan Shaw]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> are using it successfully (and I'm not saying that lightly). If the process
> seems stuck try attaching to it with gdb or strace and find out what
> it's doing. Don't use kill -9, that can damage internal Samba databases.

It seems to me that, in most cases (there are exceptions),
doing a "kill -9" isn't any more harmful than the machine
crashing or power being lost.  How resistant is smbd to the
machine losing power?  Would the same risk exist?

   - Logan