[Samba] Samba creating multiple isntances of the deamon

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Benoit Gauthier wrote:

| That client is a Windows 2000 desktop which is 99%
| reserved for backup purposes. It connects to a local
| Linux computer (192.168.0.99) via Samba (using a mapped
| drive, of course) and then addresses four NFS
| mounts to get new and updated files off four
| distant servers.
|
| When Samba goes real crazy with process creations,
| there is one created every minute during a backup sequence
| which lasts about 30 minutes. This happens four times
| a day since the backup software is set up to do
| backups every six hours.
|
| Your help is most appreciated.

Is the machine accessing the Samba server via unc path
name?  You might want to try it as a mapped drive.







cheers, jerry
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