High network on idle Samba mount

[damiank]

Awhile back a post was made:

thread865-1105954

The question was that when a linux machine mounts a samba share even though the share is idle, there is a lot of traffic from the client to the samba server. The traffic is this:

TCP 37724 > 445 [ACK] Seq=5340 Ack=10385 Win=16664 Len=0 TSV=46720138 TSER=624540952 66 445
SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_PATH_INFO, Query File Unix Basic, Path: \ 146 445
SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_PATH_INFO 231 37724
SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_PATH_INFO, Query File Unix Basic, Path: \ 146 445
SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_PATH_INFO 231 37724
SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_PATH_INFO, Query File Unix Basic, Path: \ 146 445
SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_PATH_INFO 231 37724
SMB Query Information Disk Request 105 445
SMB Query Information Disk Response 115 37725
TCP 37725 > 445 [ACK] Seq=5340 Ack=10385 Win=1460 Len=0 TSV=46720139 TSER=624540954 66 445
SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_PATH_INFO, Query File Unix Basic, Path: \ 146 445
SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_PATH_INFO 231 37725
SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_PATH_INFO, Query File Unix Basic, Path: \ 146 445
SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_PATH_INFO 231 37725
SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_PATH_INFO, Query File Unix Basic, Path: \ 146 445
SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_PATH_INFO 231 37725

These requests are constant, even though everything is idle. I've had this problem for awhile.

I also have windows machines mounting the same share and there is no traffic when everything is idle. This indicates to me that it is a problem with the unix samba client, or, perhaps the server isn't responding properly and causing the client to resubmit.

There are no errors in any logs, or, in the ethereal capture.

Any response is greatly appreciated.