[Samba] Linux Samba server mounts hundreds of filesystems

[Ben Walton]

You could use the per machine configuration options to enable a
different debug level for only a few clients.

Something like (in [global]):
include = /etc/samba/smb.conf.%m

Then create a file called /etc/samba/smb.conf.<client machine>

with the debug settings there.  I'm not sure if doing this requires a
config file for every machine or not though.

Just a thought.
-Ben

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 16:18 -0800, Karandeep Singh wrote:
> We are a fairly large site with several thousand unix filesystems available
> for a Samba server to mount.  Some Windows user or users are running an
> application or command that causes the Samba server to mount everything. Even
> though we have a specially hacked kernel that allows upward of 7000 mounts, the
> mount table fills up and messes up the automounter. This is not a Samba issue.
> I would like some pointers as to how to identify the command(s) users are
> running on the Windows side that causes this on our Linux Samba server. We have
> hundreds of Samba clients and increasing the debug level for all does not
> seem the way to go. I am also not sure as to which the suspect clients are
> to zero in on them.
> 
> Any thoughts or suggestions as to how to proceed with the debug, what log level to set,
> and what strings to look for in (which) log files would be appreciated. 
> 
> Here are some details.
> 
> uname -a
> Linux plxs0131 2.4.9-45lxset36tcpsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 09:16:34 PST 2005 i686 unknown
> 
> smbd -V
> Version 3.0.10
> 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
>  -KD
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