43.6. Viewing and Disconnecting Clients
Every client that is accessing a file or printer share on your system has a connection to the Samba server, and those connections can be viewed using this module. Clients may also lock files that they have open for editing, which prevents others from opening them. One of the server's tasks is the maintenance of these locks, which are associated with sessions and viewable. If a client crashes without properly disconnecting, any locks that it holds will remain until the TCP connection times out, which can take a while. For this reason, the module allows you to kill client sessions and thus release their locks.
To view and delete client sessions, follow these steps:
1. | On the module's main page, click on ... |
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