I finally got ahold of the writer of Filesys::SmbClient, and discovered
that it's a problem with libsmbclient and persistent connections.  The
Samba folks are working to make the library support them.

Thanks,
Lars


On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Gerald Richter wrote:

> >
> >   I'm not mounting.  Filesys::SmbClient appears to make a fresh SMB
> > connection each time one of its methods (open, opendir, unlink, mkdir,
> > etc) is called.  Running outside of Apache/Embperl, I have no problem with
> > it.  But inside, it is somehow recalling the file descriptor and the fact
> > that it connected successfully before.
> >
> 
> I don't have used Filesys::SmbClient, so I am just guessing...., maybe the
> module keeps the filehandle somewhere to speed up execution. Since you run
> under mod_perl all globals will rest forever unless they are cleaned up.
> Embperl does this for all globals inside a Embperl page, but if
> Filesys::SmbClient caches the filehandle somewhere, then it will be still
> there when the next request comes in.
> 
> I think you should either look to the source of Filesys::SmbClient or ask
> it's author
> 
> Gerald
> 
> 
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