Connection CIFS always exist after closing session ?

[M. FRANGEUL]

Bonjour,
J'utilise cifsclient A.01.08 sur un serveur hp-ux 11.00 pour acc??der une ressouce partag??e sur un serveur Windows 2000.

Lors de la connexion sur la platform hp-ux les utilisateurs sont connect??s automatiquement ?? la ressource partag??e gr??ce ?? une commande cifslogin dans leur .profile.

Le probl??me est que lorsque les utilisateurs ferment leur session sous hp-ux, la ressource CIFS est toujours presente.

Comment fermer la connection ?? la ressource windows automatiquement ?? la fermeture de la session utilisateur ?

Existe t-il un fichier lu au moment de l'exit dans lequel on peut mettre une commande cifslogout ?

[Steven E. Protter]

Based on your title only.

The answer is no. There sould not be a process after the user has disconnected.

When a cifs/9000 user connects there is a sshd server process created which should terminate when the user disconnects.

See /etc/opt/samba/smb.conf for more information.

I also recommend getting current with CIFS. That would be A.01.09 for the client and A.01.10 for the server.

I sure hope your English is better than my French.

SEP

[M. FRANGEUL]

Thanks for your answer SEP.

But your french is certainly better than my english.

Thanks again.

[eric raeburn_1]

The CIFS Client will not close its connection to a server until the last share on that server is unmounted. After you are sure no user is logged in, if you do:

umount

for each of the mounted shares at the server, the connection will be closed.

You could automate this with a shell script. First use "cifslist -S" to ensure the server is mounted, then use "cifslist -u" to ensure no users are still logged in, then use the output of "mount -p" to get the mountpoints on the server of type "cifs" to unmount. This last step is easier if you have configured

mtab = ""

in cifsclient.cfg (this option is not available in versions prior to A.01.09).

Good luck. Please post if you have further questions or any problems with this solution.

[Steven E. Protter]

My experience is that a connection to a CIFS share, whether it be via a Windows or HP client will stay current until terminated by the client or the server.

My original answer refers to the server side smbd server process.

A smbd process is created every time a cifs client connects to a share. That is one process per connection. This server process can be connected in one of two ways:

1)User disconnect
2)Stopping the Samba server /sbin/init.d/samba stop

SEP

[eric raeburn_1]

I believe M. Frangeul's inquiry is about the CIFS Client, specifically, that after the last "cifslogout" the Client still has a connection open to the server. In other words, cifslist shows the share and the mountpoint, and no logged-in users. Let's wait for his response.