We have a Windows client running a script regularily that for some reason causes smbstatus to generate an ever increasing lines of output even thought there seems to be only one active connection. It's a bit annoying.... # /liu/bin/smbstatus -p | egrep sccm_sqlsa|sort | uniq -c 214 97735 sccm_sqlsa sccm_sqlsa-gid 2001:6b0:17:2300::58:32 (ipv6:2001:6b0:17:2300::58:32:61701) SMB3_11 - AES-128-CMAC # /liu/bin/smbstatus -S | egrep 97735 | sort|wc -l 216 # smbstatus -S | egrep 97735 | head source 97735 2001:6b0:17:2300::58:32 Thu Oct 7 05:30:06 2021 CEST - AES-128-CMAC source 97735 2001:6b0:17:2300::58:32 Thu Oct 7 12:50:06 2021 CEST - AES-128-CMAC source 97735 2001:6b0:17:2300::58:32 Thu Oct 7 13:00:06 2021 CEST - AES-128-CMAC source 97735 2001:6b0:17:2300::58:32 Thu Oct 7 11:45:06 2021 CEST - AES-128-CMAC source 97735 2001:6b0:17:2300::58:32 Thu Oct 7 07:00:07 2021 CEST - AES-128-CMAC source 97735 2001:6b0:17:2300::58:32 Thu Oct 7 07:50:06 2021 CEST - AES-128-CMAC source 97735 2001:6b0:17:2300::58:32 Thu Oct 7 00:50:06 2021 CEST - AES-128-CMAC source 97735 2001:6b0:17:2300::58:32 Thu Oct 7 06:15:06 2021 CEST - AES-128-CMAC source 97735 2001:6b0:17:2300::58:32 Thu Oct 7 10:50:06 2021 CEST - AES-128-CMAC source 97735 2001:6b0:17:2300::58:32 Thu Oct 7 03:55:06 2021 CEST - AES-128-CMAC # netstat -anW | egrep 58:32 tcp6 0 0 2001:6b0:17:2400::8:39.445 2001:6b0:17:2300::58:32.61701 ESTABLISHED