[Samba] Lots of smbd processes and connections?

[Brian]

This also fits with my earlier effort to add a new user on 
the windoze and bsd side which didn't have all the links back
and forth.  That effort with the new user didn't produce all
the spamming.  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org On Behalf Of Brian
>
> Well don't hold me to it, but I may have solved it!
> 
> Was trying to reproduce it but that failed....grrr
> Will keep trying after all this...for the benefit of all
> 
> anywho....here is / was the thing
> 
> my homes is set to
> 
> [homes]
>    comment = Home directory for %u on %h
>    browseable = no
>    writable = yes
>    path = /usr/home/%u/Documents
>    valid users = %S
> 
> I had /usr/home/root as a symbolic link pointing back to
> /root
> 
> then I had /root/Documents as a symbolic link pointing
> to /usr/samba-shares/file-server3/root/Documents
> 
> should be ok?  at least I thought so
> 
> well so far so good (crosses fingers) I deleted the
> /usr/home/root symbolic link to /root and made a real
> directory there named root, then I created a symbolic link
> there named Documents to /usr/samba-shares/file-server3/Documents
> 
> ohh and if ya missed it I moved
> /usr/samba-shares/file-server3/root/Documents
> to /usr/samba-shares/file-server3/Documents
> 
> and also somewhere in there I renamed "old root home" to "old-root-
> home"
> 
> BAMMM near as I can tell no one is spamming any more
> 
> Yawns! time will tell if I fixed it, but would sure like to reproduce
> it!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:jra at samba.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:33 PM
> > To: Brian
> > Cc: samba at lists.samba.org; 'Jeremy Allison'; 'Matthew Dickinson'
> > Subject: Re: [Samba] Lots of smbd processes and connections?
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 07:48:10PM -0500, Brian wrote:
> > > Not that a matters, remember I have my non-working work around
> > > in place where I inserted a "roo" share.  It may change things
> > > because I am not getting that recurring " couldn't find service
> > > roo" anymore which was looking for a truncated service name.
> > > DFS problems does however sound like a different ball game...IDK
> >
> > If you're not using DFS then try setting "host msdfs = no" and
> > rebooting the clients. I'm guessing this may make a difference.
> >
> > Jeremy.
> 
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