[Samba] Re: A lot of IPC$ connections

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Franz Pförtsch wrote:
> Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> 
>> [IPC$] is the share that the windows connect to in order to
>> open named pipes in order to issue the spoolss RPC calls.
>>
> How could I finish this connections, they took a lot of CPU (30%).
> Or is it "dangerous" to disrupt them.
> 
> When I restart the smbd the load is "normal".

You need to look at the traffic to know for sure what
is going on.  The connection to IPC$ itself is not taking
CPU.  It the chatter from the client that is consuming CPU.
Listen to the client using ethereal and find out what she
is saying.







cheers, jerry
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