[Samba] Samba shares becoming inactive after a while

[Wilfred van Velzen]

>>> Greg Folkert <greg at gregfolkert.net> 2004-06-14 17:01:45 >>>
> On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 03:09, Wilfred van Velzen wrote:
> > When a user is not using a samba share, after a while they become
> > "inactive". When a user wants to access the share again, it takes
an
> > irritating long time before they get access again. The (windows)
> > application that does the accessing is not responding during that
> > time. There are no drive letters assigned to the shares in a logon
> > script. When I do assign a drive letter to the share (in a test
> > situation), this problem doesn't seem to exist. But how can I
prevent
> > this without assigning drive letters to all the shares?
> >
> > Here's the global section of my /etc/samba/smb.conf :
> >
> > [global]
> > 	workgroup = SERCOM
> > 	server string = Samba Server
> > 	encrypt passwords = Yes
> > 	map to guest = Bad User
> > 	time server = Yes
> > 	unix extensions = Yes
> > 	socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY
> > 	keepalive = 0
> > 	printcap name = CUPS
> > 	add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /dev/null -s
> > /bin/false %m$
> > 	domain logons = Yes
> > 	os level = 65
> > 	preferred master = Yes
> > 	domain master = Yes
> > 	printing = cups
> > 	veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/
> >
> > I've already experimented with the 'socket options' and
'keepalive'
> > options, but these don't seem to make any difference...
>
> From the included docs for Samba:
>
> deadtime (G)
>         The value of the parameter (a decimal integer) represents
the
>         number of minutes of inactivity before a connection is
>         considered dead, and it is disconnected. The deadtime only
takes
>         effect if the number of open files is zero.
>
>         This is useful to stop a server's resources being exhausted
by a
>         large number of inactive connections.
>
>         Most clients have an auto-reconnect feature when a connection
is
>         broken so in most cases this parameter should be transparent
to
>         users.
>
>         Using this parameter with a timeout of a few minutes is
>         recommended for most systems.
>
>         A deadtime of zero indicates that no auto-disconnection
should
>         be performed.
>
>         Default: deadtime = 0
>
>         Example: deadtime = 15
>
> Hope this helps.

Since 'deadtime = 0' is the default, and I haven't specified it
explicitly, this should already be in effect. But I have now specified
'deadtime = 540' in my global section, as a test value... We'll see...




Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards,
Wilfred van Velzen



Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards,
Wilfred van Velzen


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