Are LANMAN job numbers limited to 16 bits?

James Sutherland jas88 at cam.ac.uk
Sun May 28 16:38:23 GMT 2000


On Mon, 29 May 2000, John E. Malmberg wrote:

> Greg Dickie <greg at discreet.company> wrote:
> 
> > errr how do you only get 255 from 8 bits?
> 
> Correct it is an "errr".  It is 256 values.  That does not change the
> magnatude of the problem though. :-)

Although since it's a *16* bit number in effect, the limit is really 65536
jobs in the queues at once on any given Samba server. This is less likely
to be a problem...


James.



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