[Samba] Too many opened files....samba 3.0.28a

Ryan Novosielski novosirj at umdnj.edu
Wed Aug 20 19:17:59 GMT 2008


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Pappas, Bill wrote:
> An XP client is having an issue with my 3.0.28a server. They do not have this problem on a native w2003 file server with the same amount of data.
> 
> 
> [2008/08/20 13:25:14, 5] smbd/dir.c:OpenDir(1079)
>   OpenDir: Can't open DowningShotgun/DowningTest/DowningTest.files/sample. Too many open files
> [2008/08/20 13:25:14, 3] smbd/filename.c:scan_directory(586)
>   scan dir didn't open dir [DowningShotgun/DowningTest/DowningTest.files/sample]
> [2008/08/20 13:25:14, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet_set(106)
>   error packet at smbd/nttrans.c(649) cmd=162 (SMBntcreateX) NT_STATUS_TOO_MANY_OPENED_FILES
> 
> I adjusted the "max open files" parameter in smb.conf to 1,000,000 files:
> 
>         max open files = 1000000
> 
> 
> Let me ask you this...is this max count tied to each smbd process or is this an aggregate number bound to all smbd processes?

It depends on your OS. This is likely an OS message. Check Google --
this is a pretty common message.

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