[Samba] MSVC TerminalServer Speed

Eric Roseme eroseme at emonster.rose.hp.com
Tue Nov 26 23:06:00 GMT 2002


The registry parameter MultipleUsersOnConnection does not exist on 
W2000, so you cannot
enable it.  You can create multiple virtual servers on Samba with 
NetBIOS aliasing and have
your users connect to different server names.  I have not tried it, but 
it should work.

Eric Roseme
Hewlett-Packard

Chris Croswhite wrote:

>I have the identical problem.  Is the solution to enable multiple VC's (via
>regedit) from the Win2K TS?
>
>TIA,
>Chris
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>Eric Roseme said:
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>>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
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>>Marris, Dunstan wrote:
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>>>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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