[Samba] Problem with Samba and Windows Terminal Server 2008

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 02:09:06PM +1000, Ron Daniel wrote:

> The samba server is a Solaris 9 box.
> The samba verson is 3.0.9.

This version of Samba is beyond ancient. You really need
to upgrade.

>   startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd. Error was: Too many open files
> [2009/04/15 15:19:48, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:smbpasswd_getsampwnam(1326)
>   Unable to open passdb database.

You're running out of file descriptors. Increase the
system limit. See this page :

http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs81/perform/HWTuning.html#1119561

might help.

Jeremy.