Hey, Am 20.02.2012 22:07, schrieb m0n0: > ...but, maybe the smbd processes running aren't childs, what does -ps Af > | grep "smbd" output? > There one can see if these processes are child processes of another smbd. I would recommend "pstree -a pid". In the example above i only get a "smbd -D" which means samba runs as a daemon without childs. bye Bernd