[Samba] Maximum number of LANMAN Work Items and concurrent connections from IIS 6.0 to Samba

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Jun 30 16:23:11 GMT 2006


On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 05:45:24PM +0200, S. J. van Harmelen wrote:
> Hey there folks!!
> 
> I have a question about the maximum number of LANMAN Work Items and
> concurrent connections from IIS 6.0 to Samba.
> 
> We have a server for shared windows webhosting running Windows 2003 with
> IIS 6.0 (with ASP.NET 2.0) connecting to debian 3.1 with Samba 3.0.22
> (functioning as a fileserver).
> 
> At this moment there are about 250 sites running on this server. Now
> when we make a request to site x (which is using ASP.NET 2.0) we get the
> following error:
> 
> "Failed to start monitoring changes to \\server\websitedirectory...
> because the network BIOS command limit has been reached"
> 
> Now I know there is a registry setting in Windows 2003 that controls
> these values, but I can't seem to find how to configure this in Samba.
> 
> As far as I understand, Samba by default is configured for unlimited
> connections. So what am I missing?

Yes, there are no hardcoded limits in Samba. Can you post an ethereal
trace of the connection failure ? Or a smbd debug level 10 log so we
can work out what might be going on ?

Jeremy.


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