Authentication to SMB share

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.22.2.4282
Player Version#: N/A

Plex seems to be connecting/authenticating to my SMB shares a lot. I am not seeing and degradation of play back or anything just thought it was weird seeing this in the logs

Plex server is on Ubuntu Linux (latest updates getting installed tonight)
Samba is a ReadyNAS

[2021/04/26 10:08:01.038600, 2] …/source3/auth/auth.c:314(auth_check_ntlm_password)
check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [Plex] → [Plex] → [plex] succeeded
[2021/04/26 10:08:01.719717, 2] …/source3/auth/auth.c:314(auth_check_ntlm_password)
check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [Plex] → [Plex] → [plex] succeeded
[2021/04/26 10:08:02.251448, 2] …/source3/auth/auth.c:314(auth_check_ntlm_password)
check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [Plex] → [Plex] → [plex] succeeded
[2021/04/26 10:08:03.514350, 2] …/source3/auth/auth.c:314(auth_check_ntlm_password)
check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [Plex] → [Plex] → [plex] succeeded
[2021/04/26 10:08:04.370071, 2] …/source3/auth/auth.c:314(auth_check_ntlm_password)
check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [Plex] → [Plex] → [plex] succeeded
[2021/04/26 10:08:04.416505, 2] …/source3/auth/auth.c:314(auth_check_ntlm_password)
check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [Plex] → [Plex] → [plex] succeeded
[2021/04/26 10:08:04.881146, 2] …/source3/auth/auth.c:314(auth_check_ntlm_password)
check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [Plex] → [Plex] → [plex] succeeded
[2021/04/26 10:08:04.912797, 2] …/source3/auth/auth.c:314(auth_check_ntlm_password)
check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [Plex] → [Plex] → [plex] succeeded
[2021/04/26 10:08:05.643599, 2] …/source3/auth/auth.c:314(auth_check_ntlm_password)
check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [Plex] → [Plex] → [plex] succeeded
[2021/04/26 10:08:05.680800, 2] …/source3/auth/auth.c:314(auth_check_ntlm_password)
check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [Plex] → [Plex] → [plex] succeeded
[2021/04/26 10:08:06.192667, 2] …/source3/auth/auth.c:314(auth_check_ntlm_password)
check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [Plex] → [Plex] → [plex] succeeded

is this something to actually worry about or?

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You’re seeing how the connection is used.

It’s opened for when it’s needed (the task) then closed.

There’s no harm here but you might want to dial back the logging level to “error” (or its equivalent)

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Thanks ChuckPa, if there are no issues I will lower the log level… does seem to be a bit obsessive but yeah no reduction in performance