Ryan Novosielski wrote: > J. Bakshi wrote: > > Dear list, > > > Here is a very strange problem !!! > > > I am using samba-3.0.25b-1.1.cc in clarkconnect server. No problem to > > use the samba shares at all. Authentication works with no hitch. But > > samba users stay at the system. I have just checked with "who" and found > > there are 250 samba users from 1st of Jan !!!!! > > > I tried to fond out the pid by "who -a" and kill those but then it says > > "no such pid" even I tried *smbstatus* but kill says no such pid. I > > have really no clue what to do with this problem. Day by day this > > system is flooded with more and more samba users. > > Kindly suggest what to do. How can I kill those past samba users ? How > > can I instruct samba no to have the continue with unlogged users ? > > Please show me the way. > > > thanks > > Show us the output of smbstatus. I've seen this before on HP servers. I > wonder if the users are actually there, connected, or if it is just a > wtmp/utmp problem. >
Hello Ryan, Adam and all, I did not have utime in my global section. As Adam suggested I have included it. Ryan The OS is Linux. It is clarconnect server based on Redhat. Below is the O/P of smbstatus Global parameter deadtime found in service section! Samba version 3.0.25b-1.1.cc PID Username Group Machine ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4031 sutapa sutapa sutapa (192.168.1.13) 4043 aftab aftab toshiba (192.168.1.155) Service pid machine Connected at ------------------------------------------------------- shared 4043 toshiba Tue Mar 3 10:41:04 2009 WWW 4031 sutapa Tue Mar 3 10:37:12 2009 WWW 4043 toshiba Tue Mar 3 10:37:30 2009 Locked files: Pid Uid DenyMode Access R/W Oplock SharePath Name Time -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4031 48 DENY_NONE 0x100001 RDONLY NONE /var/www/html dustri-verlag/typo3conf/ext/data_masters/pi3 Tue Mar 3 10:54:22 2009 4031 48 DENY_NONE 0x100001 RDONLY NONE /var/www/html . Tue Mar 3 10:50:10 2009 Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
