Every 6 minutes ... broken pipe

[Gerald Carter]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:56:36 Neil Hoggarth wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> 
> > 	Ok set keepalive = 0 in the globals section
> > 	of you smb.conf.
> >
> > 	Samba team: should I produce a patch that
> > 	makes keepalive = 0 the default iff security = server?
> 
> Does anyone know why smbd sends keepalives to a password 
> server? Neither the security=server smbd nor the authentication 
> server smbd seem to actually do anything with the messages, 
> unless I'm missing something.
> 
> Unless someone stands up to defend password server 
> keepalives, I would argue that the cleanest change would be 
> to simply do away with them. :-)

There is a reason for them.  Jeremy, Tridge, can you articulate
it please?







CHeers, jerry
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