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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