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

[Charles Marcus]

On 3/13/2008, Eric Boehm (boehm at nortel.com) wrote:
> If I have 50 clients with one connection (one share) now, that's 50
> connections.
> 
> This could increase to 300*50 connections. Granted, not every client
> will be active on every share at the same time but I could easily see
> that I could go from 1 to 10 connections per client.
> 
> I am interested in knowing or at least estimating how Samba might
> perform under these conditions.

It might be better if you define the problem and/or goal first...

*Why* dod you need 300+ shares? Maybe there's a better way to do it? For 
example, you could define one (or a few) shares, then using a 
combination of permissions and the 'hide unreadable' setting, users will 
only see the folders that they have access rights to...

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Best regards,

Charles