[Samba] Lots of smbd processes and connections?

[Matthew Dickinson]

On 11/9/09 9:26 PM, "Brian" <bbayorgeon at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Problem solved / culprit found!
> 
> Behavior in question:
> 
> The last character of the service name is truncated and couldn't find
> service
> 
> First off, this behavior is pretty well documented....it even appears noted
> as an odd behavior in a MS White Paper.  Normally not a big deal as MS
> clients
> would provide a few requests with the truncated service name the correct
> itself.

Could you provide a link to the whitepaper please?

> My situation was related to resident software on the client called:
> 
> CyberLink Media Libray
> HP TouchSmart
> HP MediaSmart
> 
> Matt, I would check you clients for similar software.

I don't have any of these installed.

If I access the same files from a Windows server, then the performance is as
expected, when accessed using my samba server, it's causing problems and is
really slow.

Matthew