[Samba] Lingering IPC$ connections

John H Terpstra jht at samba.org
Wed Apr 9 22:05:01 GMT 2003


Alfredo,

The connections that appear to have the same pid - they are from multiple
logons on the same machine are they not? Please confirm.

- John T.


On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Alfredo Ramos wrote:

> I'm running the latest samba release (2.2.8a), and everything seems to
> be running fine. Except for something that does not look quite right.
>
> Connections to the IPC$ share are being left behind by samba once the
> user has logged off. And what's even more troubling is that the pid
> associated with the lingering IPC$ connection is picked up by the next
> smbd process, and then you have one pid associated with more that one
> smbd connection. Smbstatus as well as ps report the same weird status.
>
> Here's a sample output from both:
>
> /usr/site/samba-2.2.8a/bin/smbstatus
> Samba version 2.2.8a
>
> Service      uid      gid      pid     machine
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> riffraff     riffraff student  11775  mudd104 Wed Apr  9 14:04:26 2003
> IPC$         leana7   student  11775  mudd104 Wed Apr  9 11:42:10 2003
> IPC$         ralf     rstaff   11526  mudd110 Wed Apr  9 10:13:14 2003
> IPC$         ksgarcia student  11526  mudd110 Wed Apr  9 11:09:28 2003
> IPC$         rakowitz student  12026  mudd111 Wed Apr  9 13:29:10 2003
>
>
> ps -ef | grep smbd
> root 11526   170  smbd -s/usr/site/samba-2.2.8a/lib/smb.conf-NEW
> root 12026   170  smbd -s/usr/site/samba-2.2.8a/lib/smb.conf-NEW
> riffraff 11775   170 smbd -s/usr/site/samba-2.2.8a/lib/smb.conf-NEW
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> Please, can somebody explain this?????
>
> I'm running on a Solaris 8 box and the clients are all Win2K SP2.
>
> Thank you.
>
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org


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