[Samba] MAX_MPX

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 07:07:25PM -0300, German D. Staltari wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, German D. Staltari wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that i have some w2k clients, which opens a lot of 
> > connections (the nt4 clients, with the same load, just some connections) 
> > and sometimes, this clients get an error of  'limit of NetBIOS commands 
> > reached', and i've found in the Microsoft site something about changing 
> > the limit of the MAX_MPX registry key in the client and the file server. 
> > I've made this changes in the w2k clients, but i didn't know how to do it 
> > in Samba. Any idea?
> 
> I've found the answer, i changed the value of the 'max mux' in the conf 
> file and it works fine. Now, the question is, how much memory does the 
> server need with a high value in this conf directive(eg. 3000)?

It doesn't make any difference to Samba, or change our memory allocation
at all. It's just a value we report to the client.

Jeremy.