Re: Constant high speed download by netbiosd over Ethernet ...

On 24 Oct 2013, at 01:27 , Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a strange problem with my laptop.  When on the Ethernet network at=
 work netbiosd seems to continually download data at around 5+MB/s.  I trac=
ed this by closing all apps and using nettop.  I can't understand what this=
 could be.

Have you looked to see what lsof shows as being open?

> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what this may be?  Know where to l=
ook for software update download files?

/var/folders I think.

>  Suggest how to stop this?  I've tried killing netbiosd (just respawns), =
even rebooting machine (it starts again).

I=92d look at lsof on the netbios port. Or try closing your netbios port (1=
37).

lsof -i :137

should give you a clue.

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