[Samba] [EXTERNAL]:Re: A disconnected network can, for all practical purposes, hang your system.

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 2022-04-07 at 14:29 +0200, Andrea Venturoli via samba wrote:
> On 4/7/22 13:00, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> 
> > What I was trying to get at was: This may not be a Samba problem,
> > it
> > may be a Windows problem. If you try this with two Linux clients
> > and it
> > works, then it is a problem with the Windows client, it isn't
> > releasing
> > its lock before disconnecting.
> 
> IIUIC what Jaideep means is "disconnecting"=[crashing,losing
> WiFi,LAN 
> cable axed, etc...].

Possibly, but that wasn't how I understood it :-)

> 
> In that case the client (be it Windows, Linux or whatever) can't
> release 
> its locks.
> So how does/should Samba react to such a situation?

How does Windows deal with such a situation ?

Rowland