Limit to num of shares?

[Mayers, P J]

You did confuse me it seems:

  Is there a limit to the number of shares for NT4 Workstation? 

  The reason I ask, is that I think I noticed a limit of 10 in the W2K Pro 
  documentation. 

  I must have the wrong search arguments, since I have tried KB and help. 

  TIA, 
  Ron 

I thought you meant "Is there a limit to the number of mapped drives?",
which AFAIK there isn't. The "10" limit you read is the connection limit,
but I was under the impression the limit only applied for incoming
connections (James' other email seems to confirm this - 10 incoming network
connections is mentioned in the Workstation license).

Samba and the SMB protocol don't have any such limitation that I know about.

> Boiling real good now

Oops.. Funny, I can never really get that hot about an RFC822 message :o)

Cheers,
Phil


-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Alexander
To: p.mayers at ic.ac.uk; Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL
Sent: 6/1/00 1:38 AM
Subject: RE: Limit to num of shares?

I hope you were joking.

1. I am ONLY working on SAMBA, and ALL my questions are SAMBA related!

2. The shares question is OBVIOUSLY a SAMBA issue. From your response, I
must have confused you. What I wanted to know, was is there a limit on
the
number of concurrent shares that appear in explorer for a given server.
ONE
client NOT 10 or 11.
EXAMPLE:
I have 1 server with 11 shares specified in the SAMBA smb.conf file.
Will I be able to see all of them from my NT client?

3. TCPDUMP is specifically modified by the author of SAMBA for
troubleshooting SAMBA. It is on page 376 of the O'Reilly book that is
now
part of SAMBA.

Boiling real good now.
Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-technical at samba.org [mailto:samba-technical at samba.org]On
Behalf Of Mayers, P J
Sent: May 31, 2000 8:22 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL
Subject: RE: Limit to num of shares?


Yes, they do. Try creating a network share, then mapping it from 11
different NT clients. You'll get a nice message telling you you've
exceeded
your connection limit on the 11th client.

This may just be SMB connections - I've never verified it. But it
*certainly* exists and is enforced under NT4. I suspect the same applied
to
Win2K pro.

And by the way - this really isn't the most appropriate forum to ask
this
question. It's only very tangentially related to Samba. Other questions
(like tcpdump versions <ahem> ;o) have been even less so...

Cheers,
Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: James Sutherland
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL
Sent: 5/31/00 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: Limit to num of shares?

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Ron Alexander wrote:



Are you sure this isn't the limit on concurrent connections? For
non-technical reasons (i.e. to make you buy a server license for
servers,
even though NT Workstation would do exactly the same job) MS limited the
number of connections you were permitted to 10. (They don't enforce this
limit anywhere, though...)


James.