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I am having a problem with Samba 3.0.20b runninn on Fedora core 4, with a 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp kernel. Each time I open a connection a new smbd process is forked. That is fine, but then that process never goes away, even after the client has disconnected. Even though there are only a few clients who make an smb connection to the server in question, dozens and dozens of smbd processes are