SMB Sessions taking a long time to disconnect
Hi,
We have an issue at work with SMB sessions being kept open for to long on Mac OS X machines.
The users connect to a Windows Storage Server 2008r2 via SMB using a mix of 10.7 and 10.8.
Using lsof | grep /Volumes/"smbshare" I can see what sessions are opened.
I have opened files using VLC and checked and then when VLC is closed the session is closed. The problem seems to lye when users are browsing folders, when a users clicks into a folder a session is opened (as it should) but when users go back/up a folder or close the window (not quitting Finder, just the window) the session is kept open.
This problem is meaning that an administrator is having to go onto the server and manually having to close the sessions for the mac users becuse other users are not able to make changes to that folder, e.g. change its name.
This is now becoming a big issue with the amount of times we are having to do this. Is there anyway we can change how long the session is kept open for or some other way to fix this?
I have used
"sysctl net.smb.fs"
To look at the settings and changed some of the values on a test machine but with little sucess. I am not entily sure what that file does and what all of the values are for but I thought it was worth a shot..
Hope someone can guide me in the right direction....
MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)