[Samba] Windows 2000 Terminal Server and Samba

[Jan Mostert]

Hello Cristian,

We had installed Samba 2.2.3a, but ran out of file locks within an hour.
Appearently Samba 2.2.3 needs lots more file locks than 2.0.7. Now we are
monitoring the server to determine the maximum number of file locks during
the day. Later we modify the kernel parameter "nflocks" to a correct value.

kind regards,
Jan Mostert.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Barth" <barth at cck.uni-kl.de>
To: <drew.zeller at statcan.ca>; "Jan Mostert" <J.Mostert at geodelft.nl>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 9:03 AM
Subject: RE: [Samba] Windows 2000 Terminal Server and Samba


> > The past two months we have been searching for a solution for this
topic. We run Citrix Metaframe 1.8 on W2k TS and had lots of performance
problems. I sent some questions about this to the list, but got no answers.
> >
> > What we finally found that was causing the problem is that we had our
Internet Explorer cache on a network drive (NT 4.0 SP6 server). Putting this
on a local drive gave an enormous performance boost.
> >
> > We still are having problems with the performance to a Samba
> > server. Indeed: there is only one daemon per W2k server.
> That's by design of w2k and can not be changed in opposite to nt.
>
> > We
> > modified several registry settings and turn off oplocks on both
> > the Samba machine and the W2k servers, but it does not make any
> > difference. On the Samba server (HP A400, Hp-UX 11i, Samba 2.0.7)
> > we see a lot of disconnects and reconnects. Why this is: no answer
> > from the list!
>
> Have you considered to update your samba to the latest samba 2.2.3a
> or 2.2.pre4 using CVS?
>
> Christian
>
>
> > A way to force Samba to start more than one daemon is using a lot
> > of Netbios aliases for the same server. If you give every user an
> > alias for the service to connect, than every user gets its daemon.
> > We have not yet implemented this, so I don't know if there are any
> > side-effects. I also don't know if there is a maximum number of
> > aliases.
> >
> > I think that there are not that many sites where they use W2k TS in
combination with Samba. That this combination gives problems is very clear
to me. I think this is a pitty; we almost were thinking of geting rid of
Samba and implement a Windows 2000 File server ...
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Jan Mostert
> > s are still not GeoDelft
> >
>
>
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