[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#424405: Bug#424405: Bug#424405: Smbd keeps many TCP connections for no good reason (deadtime/keepalive)

[Christian Perrier]

> What does this do to long-lived client connections that may be idle for
> minutes (or hours while the user is away from his desk) at a time?

Theyr're just reconnected. Most, if not all clients, now silently
reopen connections when they're closed.


> 
> I would prefer to have a discussion with upstream about making this a
> built-in default, if it's really a current and widely-supported
> recommendation.  It may just be a comment that someone put in the
> documentation which hasn't been vetted by the Samba Team as a whole.


That's possible, yes.

It's quite some time now since I don't read the upstream lists
anymore, which I'm reconsidering to do. Do you think that such
question pertains to samba at l.s.o or samba-technical?


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