[Samba] netbios-ns

[Judy Lin]

Yes, I know that I am running it via xinetd.  I'm just wondering why I get
a flood of these-- netbios-ns being continually started and then timed
out.  Wondering what the windows machine on the other end is attempting to
do.

Judy

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, John H Terpstra wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Judy Lin wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know why a windows machine would give me messages like these
> > in /var/adm/messages and deactivate service netbios-ns and restart it
> > continuously?
>
> Yep! You are running it grom xinetd instead of as a daemon.
>
>  - John T.
>
> >
> > Dec  2 14:58:31 sambasrvr xinetd[20354]: START: netbios-ns pid=20451
> > from=123.123.123.123
> > Dec  2 14:58:31 sambasrvr xinetd[20354]: START: netbios-ns pid=20452
> > from=123.123.123.123
> > Dec  2 14:58:31 sambasrvr xinetd[20354]: Deactivating service netbios-ns
> > due to excessive incoming connections.  Restarting in 10 seconds.
> > Dec  2 14:58:31 sambasrvr xinetd[20354]: FAIL: netbios-ns connections per
> > second from=123.123.123.123
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Judy
> >
> >
>
> --
> John H Terpstra
> Email: jht at samba.org
>