In Beta6 I have used MacOSX Windows Sharing and access via \\hostname\user in Parallels/XP. Now in the release candidate this does not work (I do not get access) and on the MacOS X side every second or so after the access attempt, a new smbd process is spawned, until the machine is unuseable, due to the limited size of the process table. Has anyone seen this problem? Or is there a stable way of accessing the OS X files? I have tried the Parallels Shared folder and this consistently crashes Explorer. Thanks in advance for any help, -- Robert
a dollar I bet a dollar this is the problem I had with the "-10810 can not launch <application>" errors I was seeing. I just enabled the shared folder yesterday to move a big ISO between environments. And I did a full reinstall of Mac OS X to solve the problem.
Possibly an unreachable printer server in /etc/cups/client.conf looking at /var/log/samba/log.smbd the CUPS printer server which I use at work could (obviously) not be reached when I was not at my workplace. This seems to trigger the runaway smbd processes, once the smbd process is triggered, which of course happens when I try to access MacOS X files from Parallels/XP. I removed the printer server from /etc/cups/client.config, and will try using the BrowsePoll feature as described in: http://math.berkeley.edu/index.php?module=faq&FAQ_op=view&FAQ_id=20 After the change, the runaway smbd proccesses problem has not appeared yet. I shy away from switching it back just to confirm the bug, as this is a nasty problem... So this may be a bug in smbd. Greetings -- Robert
Cups printer server in /etc/cups/client.conf not at fault... I now had a runaway smbd problem without this setting. Greetings, -- Robert
