[Samba] weird messages in logs

[Denis Cardon]

Hi Emmanuel,

>
> I have the exact same problem as this:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=772154
>
> But the Samba version is different and much newer (Debian
> Wheezy 2:4.1.17+dfsg-1~bpo70+1). B
>
> asically many errors appear about non existing usershares. These fake
> usershares are just the user name, but truncated of the last character.
>
>    process_usershare_file: stat of /var/lib/samba/usershares/netlogo
>    failed. No such file or directory

It is not a bug per se, but I'd say it does not have the best default 
parameter value. Try adding the following parameter in your [global] 
section (the default value here is 100 on my Debian package) and restart 
smbd:

[global]
....
usershare max shares = 0

Cheers,

Denis


> There are so many messages that the server performance drops
> dramatically!
>
> Our friend L.P.H. van Belle (who lurks here, I know) did an answer
> to this bug report that I don't completely understand, though. So this
> isn't a bug, alright. What is causing this? Are the client machines
> trying to access these shares, or create it?
>
> I don't understand either (or find in the documentation) how to disable
> these usershares. Any help and explanation appreciated.
>
>
>

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