W2K-Terminal Server vs Samba 2.0.7

[Charles N. Owens]

Grotnes Per Kjetil PBE-SIT wrote:

> > > > I had to make the Rdr and Parameters keys myself...
> > > > Do I make this change in regedit or regedt32 ??
>
> > > Better to use rededt32.exe on NT.  Or you can just import
> > > the .reg file from the Samba docs.  Make sure you reboot
> > > the TSE server after making the change.
>
> > You are missing the point that there is no "rdr.sys" on Win2K, but
> > "mrxsmb.sys". I haven't seen MultipleUsersOnConnection used by MRxSmb or
> > mentioned in MS KB for Win2K.
>
> To keep the "thread" alive I just want to throw in a thought here.  Might it be that W2K does
> not have this problem?  That the OpSys can handle more than 2000 connections through a
> single process?  If so then the cause might be in the system that runs samba.  As in solaris
> the default file descriptor limit is 1024 pr. process.
>
> Would you not get the same errors if the Unix system can not handle all those FD through the
> single connection like the Windows system?

Can anyone else comment on this?

If this is the case, then it boils down to two questions:

  1. Is Samba sufficiently robust such that a single smbd process can cope with handling tens of
     thousands of open file descriptors?
  2. Is the underlying *nix OS (in my case FreeBSD) capable of supporting a process with this
     many open files?

I believe that #2 is just a matter of tuning... so it would seem that the unknown factor here is
Samba itself.  Can it scale in this way?  From some email exchanges I've had with some folks in
the past I'm inclined to expect that it *can*... anyone with some evidence either way?

In any case, I'm about two weeks away from trying this myself.

Thanks,
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