[Samba] dead samba process

[Werner Kratochwil]

Hi!

I am having trouble with a samba server version 2.2.5 on SuSe 8.1.

Very often my samba processes get to state D and can't be killed
anymore.
The clients seem to continue to connect and so I get even more dead
samba
processes.
These processes can't be killed, all I can do is reboot the machine.

I have looked on the internet, quite a few posts regarding that problem,
but
no real solutions.
Do you think an update to a new samba version could help?

The smbd is called through inetd with the following line in inetd.conf:

netbios-ssn    stream    tcp    nowait    root    /usr/sbin/smbd
       smbd -l /var/log/samba

All shares are on a RAID controller using ReiserFS.

I decided to not start nmbd. Could this be the problem?

Any ideas?

Another problem I have
Whenever I connect to the linux box within a Windows Explorer (our
clients
are Win XP and Win 2K) the first time, it is listed in the workgroup
"Unknown".

Could this problem be connected to that or would could I do to change
this?
(starting nmbd did not change anything)

Thanks for the help in advance
Nice regards
Werner Kratochwil