VFS: connect to share is different with Win98 and smbclient

[Leighton Brown]

Why do we want to duplicate windows behaviour here when what we do is
clearly superior?
Leighton

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 18:25:30 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:

>  On 20 Nov 2001, Rainer Link <link at foo.fh-furtwangen.de> wrote:
>  
>  > Well, why does smbclient and Windows behave different here? The main
>  > problem with Win* is, that if an user is connected to three shares and
>  > opens a somewhat bigger file (-> virus scanning takes some time) all
the
>  > other shares are slowed down, as only one smbd child is forked. I even
>  > had a report that by retrieving a 30 MB ZIP-File, which is scanned
>  > recursively as I've specified within SAVI to scan inside zip files, no
>  > more connections to other shares are possible by this user. With
>  > smbclient, for every share one smbd child (and therefore one
>  > smbd_vscan_sophos "child") is forked. So, retrieving one large file
from
>  > one share does not slow down speed of the other shares. At least I
>  > wasn't able to reproduce this behaviour.
>  
>  I seem to recall that Win9x opens only a single socket connection to a
>  server and performs all operations for all shares and security
>  contexts across that socket.  smbclient is a more "normal" unix
>  program in that each instance of the program opens its own socket.
>  
>  I'm not sure what to do about this -- it might require a big change
>  inside Samba -- but hopefully it's a useful start...
>  
>  -- 
>  Martin 
>





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