[Samba] Samba & Terminal Services / Citrix

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 22:51, DOELKER,RAINER (HP-Germany,ex2) wrote:
> Hi Brad and Drew,
> 
> one statement to the thread of yours in the samba-list:
> yes, terminal-server on NT had the switch to make the terminal use one
> virtual connect for each terminal-server-client. windows 2000 does not have
> the registry entry any more.
> 
> so what happens is you might face the situation that you cannot connect all
> shares:
>   [2003/03/10 10:38:35, 1] smbd/conn.c:(102)
>    ERROR! Out of connection structures [2003/03/10 10:38:35, 0]
> smbd/service.c:(340) 
>   Couldn't find free connection. 
> 
> This is a fix value in the sources smbd/conn.c: 
> #define MAX_CONNECTIONS 128
> 
> so if you have 40 terminal clients connecting 4 samba-shares (= 160
> connections on one smbd) that would not match. Change the value to e.g. 256
> and recompile your samba.
> 
> Note: if you have to many connections to one smbd it might affect the
> performance.
> 
> There is suggestion to make this a smb.conf configurable (max connections
> per client) but thats not yet accepted.

Can you please file a bug in bugzilla.samba.org explaining all this. 

(Pick on Samba 3.0beta1, it still has the same issue).

Personally, I think it's worth the 4kb penalty to allow 65535 tree
connects if we need to...

Andrew Bartlett

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Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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