[Info-vax] Samba log files

[Barratt, Chris (Health)]

Is it necessary for the requesting machine to connect each time it polls ?

Could it permanently map a device to the SAMBA share ?  (thereby having a single connection over a long period, while the interface running on it polls away as much as it wants).

Cheers,
chris

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of DeanW
> Sent: Thursday, 26 November 2009 08:02
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> Subject: [Info-vax] Samba log files
> 
> I've got an interface that uses Samba. A requesting machine polls our
> server
> looking for data files. Every time it connects, a new
> SAMBA$ROOT:[VAR]SAMBA$STARTUP.LOG gets created. This happens every 15
> seconds... roughly 5700 log files a day. While it self-purges to only keep
> the 10 most recent, but it still rolls over 32k versions in less than a
> week. Ugh.
> 
> I'm guessing that the Inactivity parameter (see below) on the service
> causes
> it to time out and die just before the next request, but I'm stumped as to
> how that gets set, changed, cleared, or even exactly what it means...
> 
> Help? The goal is to stop/slow down the frequency that new log files get
> created.
> 
> TCPIP> sho service smbd /full
> 
> Service: SMBD
>                            State:     Enabled
> Port:              139     Protocol:  TCP             Address:  0.0.0.0
> Inactivity:          5     User_name: SAMBA$SMBD      Process:  SMBD
> Limit:              50     Active:        1           Peak:         5
> 
> File:         SAMBA$ROOT:[BIN]SAMBA$SMBD_STARTUP.COM
> Flags:        Listen
> 
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