Unable to kill smbd on unix?

I always have some samba smbd process on my unix that can't be killed by neither stop smbd process nor "kill -9". The process increases and enough to stop me from login to unix from window thru Samba.





Is there any solution other than restart my unix box?





Thanks.

Unable to kill smbd on unix?
First make sure that you are root when you try to run the kill command.





If that does not work, when you run 'ps -ef' you should be able to see not only the process ID number but the process ID of the parent process. You may need to kill the parent (as this may be restarting the smbd process).





If that does not work, you may need to restart (if you can't kill the parent or if there is no parent to kill, you are stuck).