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Date:      Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:22:46 -0600
From:      "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net>
To:        "'Garance A Drosihn'" <drosih@rpi.edu>, <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Smbd process not disconnecting
Message-ID:  <002201c39e52$09d61dc0$04fea8c0@moe>
In-Reply-To: <p06002021bbc5bf76102b@[128.113.24.47]>

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> At 7:42 AM -0600 10/29/03, Charles Howse wrote:
> >
> >Note below, that the connection was opened on the 28th, but
> >did not close, however the connection to "Seeds" closed
> >about 4 mins after I opened it.
> >
> >Snippet from /var/log/moe.log
> >[2003/10/28 12:11:13, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(698)
> >   moe (192.168.254.4) connect to service WWW initially as=20
> user nobody
> >(uid=3D65534, gid=3D65534) (pid 3064)
> >[2003/10/28 15:31:04, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(698)
> >   moe (192.168.254.4) connect to service Seeds initially as=20
> user nobody
> >(uid=3D65534, gid=3D65534) (pid 3064)
> >[2003/10/28 15:35:49, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(880)
> >   moe (192.168.254.4) closed connection to service Seeds
> >
> >Am I way off target here, or do I have a process that isn't
> >disconnecting when it should?
> >
> >How can I find out why the connection to "WWW" didn't close,
> >and prevent that from happening in the future?
>=20
> I believe that what happens is that samba starts a process
> which handles connections as they come-and-go from the
> client machine.  If you make additional connections, you'll
> notice that they all happen to 'pid 3064' (in the above
> example).  I expect samba does this because there are times
> when the windows client will make a whole bunch of very
> short-lived connections, and it's better to have one process
> which keeps track of client-information than to rebuild all
> that information every time.
>=20
> I'm not much of an expert on the low-level details, but I can
> say that what you're seeing is also what I've seen, and that
> I believe samba is supposed to work that way.

I just checked again, and the connection was closed at 12:13 local time,
about 24 hours later.
I guess that's acceptable, as long as it *does* finally close on it's
own.
Thanks for the reply!




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