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

[Jaideep Shankar]

What I meant by 'client gets disconnected' is like losing WiFi, removing LAN wire, etc.

In Windows, the server releases the locks after around 2 minutes.

Regards,
Jaideep

-----Original Message-----
From: samba <samba-bounces at lists.samba.org> On Behalf Of Rowland Penny via samba
Sent: 07 April 2022 18:11
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Cc: Rowland Penny <rpenny at samba.org>
Subject: Re: [Samba] [EXTERNAL]:Re: A disconnected network can, for all practical purposes, hang your system.

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



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