[Samba] Maximum number of shares

[John H Terpstra]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Martin Hermanowski wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:36:40PM +0000, John H Terpstra wrote:
> >
> > > what is the maximum  number of shares a samba server can handle? Does
> > > this number significantly affect the performance of the server?
> >
> > The largest number of shares I have seen is around 300 plus about 50
> > printers. It ran Ok. Coming to think of it, I never listed them so I do
> > not know how that would go. The site ran Ok.
> >
> > How many shares do you need?
> > Why do you need them?
> > What happened to keeping things simple?
>
> We want to configure a replacement server for a windows machine with
> about 3000 shares. Unfortunately we can not change these structures.

I think you will need to try it. Do let us know how it performs. :)

- John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org