[Samba] Re: stale smbd process when user logs out

[bsemmes at CS.Trinity.Edu]

I neglected to mention that we are using samba 2.2.5 and rehat linux 7.3.

--Brian

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 bsemmes at Sol.CS.Trinity.Edu wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Our group is observing the following behavior:
> 
> When a user accesses samba and then logs out of windows, the smbd
> process on the UNIX side is often not terminated.  This leaves
> the windows machine in an unusable state (further attempts to access 
> samba result in the user being asked for a userid and a password, and none are 
> accepted).  The only solution we have discovered is to either reboot the 
> windows machine or kill -15 the smbd process.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> --Brian
> 
>