samba - Oct 2008 - processes not closing

We are have a very serious issue we cannot seem to solve.  I cannot
duplicate the problem by trying, but sometimes when clients are logging
out, the smb processes are not closing upon their exit, and leaving the
processes running indefinitely, and often times with locked files that
they cannot then access when they log back in.  Doing a kill or even a
kill -9 on the process id often times will not work.  One example of a
constant problematic issue is a user that uses desktop search
constantly, often times when she logs out, it will leave 300-400
processes for her open.  Is there some configuration setting for timing
out connections I'm unaware of?  This is becoming a very hot political
issue, if anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks to anyone, 

Doug

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 09:01:26AM -0500, Doug Tucker
wrote:
> We are have a very serious issue we cannot seem to solve.  I cannot
> duplicate the problem by trying, but sometimes when clients are logging
> out, the smb processes are not closing upon their exit, and leaving the
> processes running indefinitely, and often times with locked files that
> they cannot then access when they log back in.  Doing a kill or even a
> kill -9 on the process id often times will not work.  One example of a
> constant problematic issue is a user that uses desktop search
> constantly, often times when she logs out, it will leave 300-400
> processes for her open.  Is there some configuration setting for timing
> out connections I'm unaware of?  This is becoming a very hot political
> issue, if anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.
If a kill -9 won't kill the process you have either a kernel
bug or a hardware problem, not a Samba issue.

Jeremy.