Dear Samba Developers, OS: Linux 2.0.31 Samba1.9.17p4 today I detected that smbstatus shows more users logged in as really using the samba service. It seems that at logoff sometimes the smbd won't die and won't free the used tcp/ip socket: Output from "netstat -a": Active Internet connections (including servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 162 0 klimt.iwr.u:netbios_ssn bildpc2.iwr.uni-he:1037 CLOSE tcp 101 0 klimt.iwr.u:netbios_ssn bildpc2.iwr.uni-he:1027 CLOSE tcp 64 0 klimt.iwr.u:netbios_ssn bildpc2.iwr.uni-he:1029 CLOSE A gdb smbd <pid> yields to: Attaching to program `/usr/sbin/smbd', process 10522 Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.1.7.14...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libpam.so.0.57...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.5.3.12...done. Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.1...done. 0x4002ad43 in waitpid () (gdb) where #0 0x4002ad43 in waitpid () #1 0x400a9998 in __DTOR_END__ () #2 0x8078113 in sigprocmask () #3 0x806710a in sigprocmask () #4 0x8069418 in sigprocmask () #5 0x806d65f in sigprocmask () #6 0x806d773 in sigprocmask () #7 0x806dc31 in sigprocmask () #8 0x804fa86 in sigprocmask () #9 0x804fd89 in sigprocmask () #10 0x8050171 in sigprocmask () #11 0x8050a0d in sigprocmask () #12 0x804a14b in sigprocmask () This looks very strange to me. The log file (log level 2) shows nothing unusal. I found more smbd processes in this state. Any ideas ? Thanks for your help. Hermann