Howdy All, I have a strange problem with my laptop. When on the Ethernet network at work netbiosd seems to continually download data at around 5+MB/s. I traced this by closing all apps and using nettop. I can't understand what this could be.
I did click on the notification to update to Mavericks (and I had automatic download of software updates turned on) but I didn't actually proceed with the update through the App Store. It doesn't look like it is downloading Mavericks either. It stops when I go on to the WiFi only at work (which hints to me that it may be an auto-download that is checking the network type) or even at home (although I may not have noticed it, perhaps but unlikely). My hard disk does seem to be losing space but not as fast as I would expect and I am not sure which file (guess I could use lsof). It was continuing for over an hour, so I thought I would have seen a huge drop in free space. I know netbiosd is Windows-related and Windows is the main OS at work and we have Windows shares and the like but I am not familiar with those or use them very much. It's also downloading not uploading data. I tried google but couldn't find anything similar. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what this may be? Know where to look for software update download files? Suggest how to stop this? I've tried killing netbiosd (just respawns), even rebooting machine (it starts again). Thanks, Ashley. -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia mrhatken at mac dot com Social (Facebook, Twitter, Skype etc.): MrHatken Professional (LinkedIn, Twitter, Skype etc.): AshleyAitken _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
