[Techtalk] Odd behaviour - Samba

MList mlist at linux-house.net
Thu Feb 19 19:58:03 EST 2004


Hi , i have solved A.

It seems that for every connection, one smbd -D process is spawned... but i am 
still stuck on B and C

>On Wednesday 18 February 2004 20:26, MList  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been runnning Samba 2.2.8a on a Mandrake Linux box and with some
> linux , win9x clients and a lexmark shared printer.
>
> A.when i logon onto the samba server, i can several instances of smbd -D
> running . Why ? is this normal? is it one smbd -D per connection / per
> machine?
>
> B. I find that sharenames are limited to 8 chars only.
>
> C. Also , from the Win9x clients , i can delete subfolders and files, but
> from linux clients, i cannot delete subfolders , only files can be deleted.
>
> any help would be much appreciated.




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