[Samba] Lingering IPC$ connections

[Alfredo Ramos]

Yes of course, they are. One user logs off, and another one logs in. That
is normal. What is not normal is the mixing of loggins and pids.

Very strange!

Thanks for the reply John.

Al.

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On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, John H Terpstra wrote:

> 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.
>
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> 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.
> >
> > Al
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