Smbd process not disconnecting

[Garance A Drosihn]

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 user nobody
>(uid=65534, gid=65534) (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 user nobody
>(uid=65534, gid=65534) (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?

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.

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.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu