nmbd fork-bombed my server

[Robbert Heederik]

On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 10:27:10PM +1000, Markus Koelle wrote:
> I've installed the 98-09-14-CVS-code an my linux machine (2.0.35-Kernel).
> 20 hours later my network with only very few clients becomes slower and 
> slower. An "ps -ax|grep nmbd" and I was shocked : hundred or so nmbd-
> processes - out of memory!  
> 
> The restart of "nmbd" was impossible - only a server reboot helps.

I have had the same thing happening on three servers running 2.0.0 
alpha4 and had to reboot two of them.  Crash dumps showed that they
were 'running' 2300+ nmbd processes...   The third machine had only
been running 2.0.0-alpha4 for a few hours without many connections and
I could stop samba in time.

After some experimenting, I am now running with the following setup:
nmbd -> nmbd-1.9.18p4_ntdom
smbd -> smbd-2.0.0-alpha4

It works fine for now, but are there any consequences of running different
versions of nmbd and smbd?

My configuration:
Servers: Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.6 Sparc's running as PDC's
Clients: mix of NT 4.0 SP3, NT 3.51, W95.

Robbert.
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