[Bug 886953] Re: smbstatus does not reliably detect that a samba connection is in use.

[Bob Harvey]

Escalated to https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8601

** Bug watch added: Samba Bugzilla #8601
   https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8601

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Title:
  smbstatus does not reliably detect that a samba connection is in use.

Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I have a file server, built to be solar powered.  It is powered up by
  a WOL magic packet, and a little daemon I have written starts to count
  down.  When it gets to zero it suspends.  Every second the daemon
  monitors for valid activity and restarts the countdown if the server
  is in use.  The indications of valid activity are : 'who' count > 0,
  number of rysnc running >0, and number of active samba connections
  open >0.

  
  Details
  ---------
  It is the samba connection that is causing me trouble.  The test is actually `smbstatus | grep \: -c`.  It ignores the various header lines in the default smbstatus output, and counts those with a time delimiter as active connections.

  This works fine with a Windows client, and used to work fine with an
  Ubunutu client, but that second case is no longer true.    I have two
  text files which tell the story: with a windows client closing the
  windows file explorer closes the last connection.  In Ubuntu, closing
  the Natuilus file explorer leaves the last connection running.  If  go
  to look at /proc/<process no>/net/tcp it is not changing.  So there is
  no traffic, but the connection is still open.

  If I kill either the process listed in smbstatus at the server end, or
  the one listed as gvfsd-smb at the client end, then it all settles
  down and no harm is done: the countdown resumes because of my
  smbstatus | grep test, and if I try to open a new connection it opens
  normally.

  I cannot differentiate when samba is in use or idle when the client is
  Ubuntu, only when it is Windows.

  Question
  -------------
  So that is my question: 
  How, at the server end, do I reliably detect that a samba connection is in use?

  Supplementary
  ------------------
  Out of curiosity:
  Why does samba lock directories when opened in a client windows file navigator, but not an ubuntu one?
  Why does samba not lock a text file when opened with a text editor from either type of client?

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