I installed samba4 alfa10. have 84 users connected: [root at dc1 ~]# netstat -na | grep -c 445 84 And +10 samba daemons running [root at dc1 ~]# ps -A | grep -c samba 94 Question : Is this OK? Is this normal behavior ? Is it 10 with no users , and then 1 daemon per user connected ?