[Samba] smbd looking for non existent files

[Michael Wood]

On 24 August 2013 22:39, steve <steve at steve-ss.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-08-24 at 20:57 +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On 24 August 2013 19:05, steve <steve at steve-ss.com> wrote:
> >         Hi
> >         4.0.8 file server in a 4.0.8 domain
> >
> >         After a user logs in on a Linux client which is joined to the
> >         domain,
> >         smbd is constantly looking for files which don't exist:
> >
> >
> > smbd has no reason to look for those files unless the client asks for
> > them.
> >
> >
> > I suspect you just need to turn down the debug level a bit.
> >
> >         Here is the file server log after a user login to a Linux
> >         client has
> >         settled down:
> >         [2013/08/24 18:43:24.748511,
> >         3] ../source3/smbd/vfs.c:1140(check_reduced_name)
> >           check_reduced_name [steve2/.icons/gnome] [/home/users]
> >  [...]
>
> Hi
> But if I turn the log level down, it's only at 3, that doesn't stop it
> looking. Does it?
>

No, of course not.


> As you say, steve2/.icons/gnome must be coming from the Linux client.
> Would it be correct to eliminate samba from this issue? My fear is that
> scaling this up by replacing windows boxes with Linux is going to grind
> the whole thing to a halt.


Since it's the client asking for those files, this will be no different if
you were running a Windows server.  Except that the windows server will not
log all the "file not found" messages.


> Watching tail -f log.smbd is scary.
>

Then turn down the log level! :)  Turn it up again if you're having
problems, of course, but this just looks like normal stuff that you should
not need to worry about.

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>