Brian,
Thanks. I thought I was just my two OS clients. From what I've been
reading lately, it seems to have been around for a while in different
releases of OSX. Our set up is one Samba PDC that acts as a file
server for a bookkeeping business. We have the mac machines as we
have a couple
Gee, I had that same problem when Tiger was first released, only the
server was a Windows NT 4 server. Didn't bother the Windows 2000
servers on the network, nor the two linux Samba servers I had, only the
one and only NT 4 server I had left. When the number of waiting
connections reached 250, th
Hi Ed,
First, I feel your pain.
While I don't have an answer, I did switch from OSX based Samba server
to Linux and my problems went away.
My experience in general with OSX server 10.5 is that its a horrible
XSAN, NFS, AFP, SMB server.
What I've used to help trouble shoot OSX in general
Lately it never fails when I attach a Mac running OSX 10.5 that I get
runaway pid's. I tracked them down so far to multiple close_wait's:
# /usr/sbin/lsof | grep pbg5mac
smbd 24876 root6u IPv4 80015755 TCP
yoda.wrenkasky.com:netbios-ssn->pbg5mac.wrenkasky.com:49381 (CLOSE_
