Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: One More Time: Mac Antivirus Software? Date: 7 Mar 2017 17:18:36 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net fF5cdqms7D/SDTvrmZmPfQLzv+rDKMrOShO/vIkh6iJlT8X/id Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jo7+9++fysH6cl2qqi1U506BMQ0= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:101935 On 2017-03-07, Fred Moore wrote: > On 3/6/17 3:52 p, Jolly Roger wrote: >> On 2017-03-06, Fred Moore wrote: >>> On 3/4/17 5:26 p, Jolly Roger wrote: >>>> I realize it's too late now, but the next time it says smbd is >>>> preventing sleep, it would be good to know if the act of turning >>>> System Preferences > Sharing > File Sharing off and back on allows >>>> the machine to sleep. >>> >>> Damn, you're good! I had both filesharing and printer sharing turned >>> on in Sharing. I turned them off and the machine slept fine. I turned >>> them back on, and it slept fine again! Problem solved, at least for >>> now it seems. >> >> I doubt printer sharing is related, but I'm curious to know if >> restarting file sharing works around the issue the next time it happens >> again. If so, then I suppose smbd is getting into a state where it >> refuses to allow sleep. > > So far the machine is sleeping properly after the filesharing toggle. > I'll post here if the problem reoccurs. Thanks to you, JR, and Lewis for > helping me out with this! Much appreciated. Any time. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR