On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 04:08:52PM +0530, Guru Prasad wrote: > Tried it. It is not working for me. > Anything else should i try..? Just kill the smbd if the shutdown command does not work. Figuring out why it deadlocks is a very hard task that is difficult to do. If all you want to do is have smbd go away, just kill it. Volker