[Samba] Lingering IPC$ connections

[Alfredo Ramos]

Anybody has any comments on this? I need to know what is going on with
the new release before I can deploy it to the labs. I'm running a
vulnerable version right now.

Please, any comments would be welcome.

Thanks;

Al.
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> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Alfredo Ramos wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > 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?????
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> > I'm running on a Solaris 8 box and the clients are all Win2K SP2.
> >
> > Thank you.
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> > Al
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> -- 
> John H Terpstra
> Email: jht at samba.org