[Samba] MSVC TerminalServer Speed

[Chris Croswhite]

I have the identical problem.  Is the solution to enable multiple VC's (via
regedit) from the Win2K TS?

TIA,
Chris

Eric Roseme said:
> As long as I am replying to the other guy about Terminal Server, I'll
> paste the same
> replay here.  If your Terminal Server is on NT4, set
> MultipleUsersOnConnection.
> Here is what I pasted from an earlier post in the archives (8/03/2002):
>
> Your problem may be related to the Windows 2000 Terminal Servers.
>
> Samba does not work well under heavy loads with Terminal Server on
> Windows 2000.  Microsoft commented out the MultipleUsersOnConnection
> code from their Windows 2000 redirector.  On NT 4.0 Terminal Server,
> the MultipleUsersOnConnection registry parameter was used to establish
> a separate VC (TCP connect) for every TS user who opened a share from
> the TS to a particular Samba server.  On Windows 2000 TS - without the
> MultipleUsersOnConnection registry parameter - only one TCP VC gets
> established from the TS to a Samba server.  Thus, all TS users who
> mount a Samba share will use the same TCP connection, and thus the same
> smbd.  If you have multiple users from one Windows 2000 TS writing to
> the Samba server via one smbd, I could see how problems might arise.
>
> If you have access to a NT4.0 Terminal Server, you could try testing it
> with the MultipleUsersOnConnection parameter enabled (see Q190162).
> Also, you could try testing your DB application against the Samba
> server without the Terminal Server.
>
>
> Eric Roseme
> Hewlett-Packard
>
> Marris, Dunstan wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Back in 1997 the list was full of tips on making Microsoft Visual C++
>>Studio (v6) use files over Samba (v2.2.2 on Solaris). Could someone
>>please point me to the definitive answers... (beyond speed.txt?) and
>>their current status.
>>
>>We have an added complication of having 5 developers using each NT4 box
>>over citrix/Terminalserver. Some days we are fine, but some days we
>>slow to a crawl of over a minute to open each small text file...
>>Meanwhile the NT box has minimal CPU used, the file server is large,
>>fast and happy, and the number of Samba cached files is reasonably low.
>>
>>Thanks for any help you can suggest,
>>Dunstan
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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