[Samba] slow and max connection errors

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 14:34, Don Wheeling wrote:
> >> [global]
> >>         load printers = no
> >
> > This should be yes if you want your printers to show up.
> > Otherwise the [printers] share below is there for no
> > reason.
> 
> Ok, for now I left this parameter to "no" and removed the printer 
> section
> 
> >
> >>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> >
> > I don't think you need socket options anymore, I could be wrong.
> 
> I removed this line
> 
> >
> >>         netbios name = RSB
> >>         server string = RSB Server
> >>         workgroup = RSB
> >
> > The SMB protocol doesn't allow you to have your machine name
> > the same as your workgroup name.  This may be an issue.
> 
> k, I renamed them:
> 
> netbios name = RSB
> server string = RSB Server
> workgroup = RSBShared
> 
> >
> >
> >> [shared]
> >>         valid users =
> >> swashington,dwheeling,beaster,bfitch,breynoso,bwatson,cbowen,cs
> >> anford,dg
> >> oldfluss,dhuscher,dkalutkiewicz,dmauz,dmcintosh,dschneider,dtin
> >> sley,dwhe
> >> eling,dyoung,gblack,gbonner,gfriedman,gmarciniak,imoore,jburns,
> >> jmayer,jm
> >> ccormick,jmercer,jpallotto,jrodriguez,jsabel,jvirgil,jvoss,kjoh
> >> nson,lbro
> >> wn,lfields,lperkins,mfleming,mhaynes,mheimple,mkarge,mwager,nwa
> >> llace,rbo
> >> wen,robbowen,rrestivo,rstearns,rwinterboer,skirtland,swright,sy
> >> oung,tbur
> >> gess,tswapp,twolf,wgriffith
> >
> > That's a lot of "valid users".  Perhaps you should create a group,
> > just for managability.  Not strictly necessary.
> 
> This is part of my final configs I have planned. I made two user groups 
> that will replace the long list above
> 
> >
> >>>> 2. When macintosh and XP users connect all is fine except for
> >>>> the speed
> >>>> issue above but when a win2k client tries to connect it
> >> gets an error
> >>>> that max users/services have been reached.
> >
> > What's the exact error and how does it present itself?  Is it
> > in the event log, or is it a popup dialog type error message?
> 
> The error is a popup window on Win2kPro machines:
> 
> The network place cannot be added because the following error has 
> occured:
> There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon 
> request.
> 
> Like I said, I'm new but it looks like the server is not broadcasting 
> itself to the network? The weird thing is some Win2k/XP/Macintosh 
> machines can connect no problem.
----
smb.conf

domain master = yes
preferred master = yes
os level = 34 #YMMV
domain logons = yes
wins support = yes # really need to have a WINS Server if you don't
                   # have one, then this PDC should be WINS Server
# or #
wins server = ip.address.of.other.server # need a wins server

On windows computer - either manually or via dhcp, however you
accomplish tcp/ip setup, you should point WINS (netbios) server to the
ip address of the PDC (or other server that is providing WINS)

Craig