[Samba] Samba processes lifetime

2007-06-11 Thread Matteo Rosati
Hi, i use the smbstatus -b command to check the users connected to my network (the clients are windows XP, and they connect to a samba PDC). but i notice thar often, even if a user logs-off from windows xp, using smbstatus i see that he is connected yet. this is very annoying because i cant

Re: [Samba] Samba processes lifetime

2007-06-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
i use the smbstatus -b command to check the users connected to my network (the clients are windows XP, and they connect to a samba PDC). but i notice thar often, even if a user logs-off from windows xp, using smbstatus i see that he is connected yet. this is very annoying It is also normal

Re: [Samba] Samba processes lifetime

2007-06-11 Thread Matteo Rosati
Adam Tauno Williams said the following on 11/06/2007 13:49: a wayo to check this user is REALLY connected? yes? ok, no? kill the process! Perform an RPC/WMI request to the workstation. can you be more specific? i have tried to have a look to all the commands i can call with an RPC, but no

Re: [Samba] Samba processes lifetime

2007-06-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
to check this user is REALLY connected? yes? ok, no? kill the process! Perform an RPC/WMI request to the workstation. can you be more specific? That is an entirely 100% Windows specific question/issue; nothing to do with Samba. Any Windows related forum or user group will be able to

[Samba] Samba Processes Not Getting Killed

2006-03-27 Thread mallapadi niranjan
Hi all We have Samba PDC with OpenLDAP (samba 3.0.21c openldap 2.3.19) . we have another linux system which is acting as Domain member server( samba 3.0.21c) . On the domain member server we have declared some shares which get mapped to my win2k clients as drives. when client access the share

[Samba] Samba processes domain authenticated user as nobody during logon. bat execution

2004-06-23 Thread gpalmer
Beating head on desk again! I have a samba server is running winbind which can access domain. It is working fine and is using domain credentials. I access the samba shares after the user has authenticated against a novell server during the novell logon script. The shares are authenticated with

Re: [Samba] Samba processes

2003-02-19 Thread Martin Pool
DON'T SEND USER QUESTIONS TO SAMBA-TECHNICAL. Just curios under what circumstances the smbd runs as user id process ( unix id ) Broadly: it runs as a user when doing operations on behalf of that user, and as root when doing system tasks. and running as root is a security risk? No. If you

[Samba] Samba processes

2003-02-18 Thread Javid Abdul-AJAVID1
Hi Am noticing smbd processes are running as root and occassionally I see a child process as userid Just curios under what circumstances the smbd runs as user id process ( unix id ) and running as root is a security risk? Thanks in advance -Abdul -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the