[Samba] Fwd: spawning smbd's

Jim Ballantine j.ballantine at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 14:39:04 UTC 2016


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jim Ballantine <j.ballantine at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 7:16 AM
Subject: spawning smbd's
To: samba at lists.samba.org


We are running a Red Hat Linux 6 system with samba 3.6.23 installed, and
configured as a stand alone
server.  A couple of users are either spawning excessive numbers of smbd,
or failing to kill them
off.  A couple of us have spent several days trying to determine the
reason, but as of now have
not found the reason.

The top of the smb.conf is:

#======================= Global Settings =====================================


[global]

#       workgroup = METRO

#       interfaces=135.205.209.150/255.255.255.0 lo eth0
127.0.0.1/255.255.255.0 192.168.12.2/24 192.168.13.2/24
#       bind interfaces only = Yes

# --------------------------- Logging Options -----------------------------
        log file = /var/log/samba/samba.log
        max log size = 500

# ----------------------- Standalone Server Options
------------------------
        security = USER
        passdb backend = tdbsam
        admin users = jwb rheyer
        server signing = auto

#----------------------------- Name Resolution
-------------------------------
# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both
#
# - WINS Support: Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable it's WINS
Server
#
# - WINS Server: Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client
#
# - WINS Proxy: Tells Samba to answer name resolution queries on
#   behalf of a non WINS capable client, for this to work there must be
#   at least one        WINS Server on the network. The default is NO.
#
# DNS Proxy - tells Samba whether or not to try to resolve NetBIOS names
# via DNS nslookups.


        #dns proxy = yes


#============================ Share Definitions
==============================

[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        path = /eros10/home1/%u
        admin users =
        writable = yes
        read only = no
        follow symlinks = No
[USERS]
        comment = USERS Directories
        path = */cds/users/*%u
        admin users =
        read only = No
        follow symlinks = No

followed by similar other share definitions.

Does anyone have any ideas on why the daemon is either spawning or failing
to get killed?

Thanks in advance

Jim Ballantine


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