[Samba] Windows 2000 Terminal Server and Samba

[Michael Joyner]

Yes, I am having problems here at Edward Waters College as well,
resource exhaustion on the SAMBA side.

:(

I currently have a crontab to reset smbd and nmbd on the affected 
servers at 3:00 am, this helps.

Jan Mostert wrote:

> Hello Drew,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> We still are having problems with the performance to a Samba server. 
> Indeed: there is only one daemon per W2k server. 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!
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> 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.
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> 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 ...
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> Kind regards,
> 
> Jan Mostert
> s are still not GeoDelft
>