[Samba] Problem on large number of shares

[Gerald Carter]

On Sun, 5 May 2002, Jürgen Röck wrote:

> Hello SAMBA Team,
> i have a little Problem with my SAMBA Server.
> Environment Description:
> 
> Windows 2000 Terminal Server (with SP2 installed)
> Samba Server on a Suse Linux System
> Samba Version 2.2.2 (self Compiled)
> Kernel Version 2.4.18
> 
> 
> Error Behavior:
> 
> Around 30 -40 Users are using the W2K Terminal-Server.
> All users gets Shares from the Samba Server in their Login Script.
> Everything seem to work fine. But sometimes users don't get their
> shares.
> It seems that this is the behavior when more than 128 shares would be
> used from one machine.
> 
> If i am logged in to the W2K Terminal-Server and try to get a share when
> there are already 128 shares in use i get an Error message in log.smbd.
> This is the error message:
> 
> [2002/05/03 14:43:54, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(325)
>   Couldn't find free connection.
> 
> Is this a known restriction or is it a bug ?

Change the following

	smbd/conn.c:#define MAX_CONNECTIONS 128

and recompile.







cheers, jerry
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