number of smbd processes per client IP

[Gerald Carter]

Paul Argentoff wrote:
> 
> Hi people!
> 
> I have noticed (and AFAIK it's normal) that samba 
> spawns one server process per client's IP address. Can 
> I change this behavior? Can I somehow force samba 
> to spawn several smbds per client IP? 

Not currently.

> Currently, when I start several terminal sessions 
> on NT machine with a copy of that accounting thing 
> in each, it (accounting program) dies shortly.
> When I did an smbstatus' snapshot, I saw that samba 
> spawned ONE smbd process to serve 
> all client processes/requests coming from ONE IP 
> address (that of a terminal server). Accounting 
> program dies when samba opens about 4,500 files.

Yes. We know this is a problem and are considering ways
to rememdy the situation.

> Terminal server: NT4 terminal server 
> edition, Cytrix MetaFrame, 2xPIII 800 MHz, 1G RAM, 10G 
> SCSI HDD (system)
> Thanks for your attention,

Oh.  I thought you were talking about win2k TSE.  For NT4 TSE,
try the following registry setting on the Terminal Server.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters]
"MultipleUsersOnConnection"=dword:00000000

You will need to reboot after merging the setting of course.
(or maybe just restarting the Workstation service)





Cheers, jerry
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