[Samba] Windows 10 spawning thousands of child processes on Samba 4.3.11 server

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 23 May 2017 14:53:57 +0200
Asbjorn Taugbol via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> > 1. The Windows client user "Admin" has mounted samba share with
> > username
> "production" and can access any files on that share. Why does Samba
> start messing with other/unknown usernames? Should I create a
> Linux/Samba "Admin" user? I admit having a somewhat limited knowledge
> of Windows/samba authentication.

Yes, on a standalone server you need to create Samba users that are
also Unix users, see here:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Standalone_Server

> 
> 2. Why are the nobody/nogroup processes not dropped when the
> corresponding locked files are no longer used?  The average ratio of
> processes/locked files is 25.000/2.000.

Possibly because they aren't being closed correctly ???

Rowland