[Samba] libsmb/nmblib.c:receive_packet(1018)

[Aaron Browne]

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 04:31:03PM -0700, Travis Knabe wrote:
> > Received the following messages ( scrolling ) in the log.smbd:
> > 
> > users could not access the samba server.  had to stop the samba daemons.
> > 
> > ran a ps -ef | grep smb 
> > 
> > found many smbd processes running.  had to pkill the process, and then re-start samba to make the shares 
> > available.  Running 3.012
> > 
> > Can't find anything anywhere.
> > 
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Interesting, what platform was smbd running on ?
> 
> Jeremy.
> 

FYI.

I have experienced this same issue with 3.0.10 running on Solaris 9. Only
happens VERY occasionally though. Might be time to upgrade.

top shows a single smbd process out of control and the log is flooded
with the errors mentioned by Travis.

Cheers,
Aaron