samba - Mar 2003 - Citrix reports no more connections to samba server

We have this happen for us.  To work around the problem, I just set up a 
cron job to restart the Samba service at 4am every day.

Ken


Phil Hale wrote:
>Hi All
>
>I have a Win2K server with Citrix Metaframe XPe installed on the network and
>uses mapped network drives to a Samba file server. The Citrix server is
>locking users out of the mapped network drive on the samba server.
>
>Citrix has 125 concurrent licences and Terminal services licences of the
>same amount
>Samba version is 2.2.3a  Running on a Redhat 7.3 box.
>
>Please advise if more into is required and what is required.
>
>Has this been seen before and what is the possible solution.
>
>Thanx in advance
>
>Phil Hale
>Technology Services Manager
>Holiday Coast Credit Union - "It's were you belong"
>http://www.hccu.com.au
>mailto:phale@hccu.com.au
>
>You don't need technology to think outside the square
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Hi All

I have a Win2K server with Citrix Metaframe XPe installed on the network and
uses mapped network drives to a Samba file server. The Citrix server is
locking users out of the mapped network drive on the samba server.

Citrix has 125 concurrent licences and Terminal services licences of the
same amount
Samba version is 2.2.3a  Running on a Redhat 7.3 box.

Please advise if more into is required and what is required.

Has this been seen before and what is the possible solution.

Thanx in advance

Phil Hale
Technology Services Manager
Holiday Coast Credit Union - "It's were you belong"
http://www.hccu.com.au
mailto:phale@hccu.com.au

You don't need technology to think outside the square




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On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 21:23, Phil Hale wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I have a Win2K server with Citrix Metaframe XPe installed on the network
and
> uses mapped network drives to a Samba file server. The Citrix server is
> locking users out of the mapped network drive on the samba server.
> 
> Citrix has 125 concurrent licences and Terminal services licences of the
> same amount
> Samba version is 2.2.3a  Running on a Redhat 7.3 box.
> 
> Please advise if more into is required and what is required.
> 
> Has this been seen before and what is the possible solution.
This is probably because the MAX_CONNECTIONS is set too low. I set mine
to 768 and have had no problems with about 45 users per citrix server.
look in smbd/conn.c in the samba sources:

/* set these to define the limits of the server. NOTE These are on a
   per-client basis. Thus any one machine can't connect to more than
   MAX_CONNECTIONS services, but any number of machines may connect at
   one time. */
#define MAX_CONNECTIONS 128


-Mark