On 24 Oct 2013, at 01:27 , Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Have you looked to see what lsof shows as being open?

> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what this may be?  Know where to look 
> for software update download files?

/var/folders I think.

>  Suggest how to stop this?  I've tried killing netbiosd (just respawns), even 
> rebooting machine (it starts again).

I’d look at lsof on the netbios port. Or try closing your netbios port (137).

lsof -i :137

should give you a clue.

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