[Samba] Is there a maximum number of shares samba can serve?

[Marcello Romani]

Eric Boehm ha scritto:
> I am being asked to determine the feasibility of serving hundreds
> (300-400) of directories as individual shares instead of sharing a single
> parent directory.
> 
> Personally, I don't think this is a good idea. Clients will go from
> having a single connection to a single share to 50-300 connections to
> multiple shares. That can't be good for performance or load.
> 
> I've searched the mailing list, the web, the documentation, the wiki
> and the source code. I haven't been able to determine the maximum, if
> any. Of course, I may have missed it. Feel free to point me to the
> correct documentation or source file.
> 
> I've seen some references that you can't have either more than 145 or
> 165 shares per samba server.
> 
> However, if there is anyone running such a large number of shares and
> has advice, I am happy to listen.
> 

Hi,
     I found some docs about this smb.conf parameter:

usershare max shares

which specifies the maximum number of shares that the samba admin will 
allow non-root users to create via the command

net usershare add

( read for example 
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/net.8.html )

The example value given in the docs for the usershare max shares 
parameter is 100, which makes me think that a samba server should cope 
with a number of shares in the hundreds.

I know it's not much, but I HTH nonetheless.

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