[Samba] Problem with Samba and Windows Terminal Server 2008

[Eric Roseme]

> Ron Daniel wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> We have a Windows 2008 Terminal Server which people connect into to 
>> run their programs. We are getting upwards of 60 people connecting in 
>> at any time. We are seeing error messages from the application 
>> complaining that it can't access one of the files on one of the 
>> shares.  I have read that this problem is likely to be due to the fact 
>> that we run one machine as a terminal server and there is only one 
>> netbios host being used by mutliple people. The paper I have read from 
>> HP refers to registry key called "MultiUserEnabled" on earlier 
>> versions of windows terminal server needs to be set to 1 in order for 
>> the father smbd process to recognise different sessions connecting 
>> from the one host.
>>
>> The paper is at 
>> http://www.docs.hp.com/en/12131/Samba-TerminalServer_106.pdf

> 
> I'll look around this afternoon and see if there are any clues that 2008 
> has a newly-named mulit-user parm.
> 
> Eric Roseme
> 
Ron - I cannot find any evidence that 
MultiUserEnabled/EnableMultiUser/MultipleUsersOnConnection has been 
rolled forward into Windows 2008.  It's possible that the functionality 
was embedded in 2008 - but very unlikely.  Can you verify that your 60 
TS users are being serviced from one Samba smbd?  If you do not have any 
non-TS users connecting, then that is easy enough by doing a "ps -ef | 
grep smbd" and seeing if there are 61 processes or 2.  In the 
whitepaper, there are several workarounds suggested.

I'll see if I can find out from MS what the story is about 2008, but for 
2000 and 2003 it was a 3-year delay each time, as I recall.

Eric Roseme