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[Stefan (metze) Metzmacher]

> Dear Sir/Madam
>
> I am running Suse enterprise v9.0 with default smb packages & would like
> to confirm if socket options as follows would work:smb.3.0.4SUSE
>
> socket options = TCP_NODEALY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE
>
> & further keepalive = 60 in global options
>
> As I understand the keepalive funtion it is to check wheter a workstation
> is still actively conntected to the server & if not it should kill trhe
> connection in the specified time. This does not seem to work for me, is it
> a Suse problem or what? I have 100 workstations connected to the box and
> the entire day i have absolutely no problems, it is just at shutdown time
> that my network locks up, this is proberbly due to the I.D.10.T problem
> where people shutdown incorrectly, so I need SO_KEEPALIVE TO work for me.
> Is there a work around for this problem.

is the 'deadtime' parameter what you want?

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metze

Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba dot org>