Why a copy of smbd for each smbmount mountpoint?

[Steve Snyder]

When an OS/2 or Win9x client logs into a (Linux) Samba v2.0.6 server
the running smbd spawns a copy of itself.  That second instance of
smbd then handles all the shares for that client machine.

In contrast, a Linux client which does multiple smbmounts (also Samba
v2.0.6) will cause the server to spawn a copy of smbd for *each*
smbmount mountpoint.  This has the potential for using up a lot more
memory on the server machine.

Is there any way to consolidate multiple smbmount shares such that 
they are handled on the server by a single copy of smbd?

Thank you.


*** Steve Snyder ***