Hi,
I'm trying to figure out a problem related to accessing Windows shares from
Linux samba clients (either smbfs or libsmbclient).
According to Microsoft, there is a limit to the number of open incoming
sessions that Windows XP/2000 will permit at one time: the limit is 5 for XP
Home, and 10 for XP Pro. The XP "net session" command shows the open
sessions.
Microsoft says that incoming sessions originating from the same computer are
counted as one session. I've tested this by accessing multiple shares
simultaneously (not password protected) from another Windows PC, and indeed
the "net session" command shows only one session active.
However, using the Linux samba libraries, it appears that each time a
Windows share is mounted, it consumes one session, even if the shares are
mounted from the same Linux PC. For example, after mounting two shares,
"net
session" shows the following:
C:\>net session
Computer User name Client Type Opens Idle
time
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\\192.168.0.11 ROOT Unix 0 00:00:03
\\192.168.0.11 ROOT Unix 0 00:00:19
Perhaps the Linux samba libraries are not creating the underlying smb
sessions in the same way that Windows is? At any rate this behavior causes
Windows XP to run out of available sessions, after which you get an Access
Denied error attempting to create or access additional sessions...
Any ideas on how to make the Linux samba libraries use one slot per source
PC? Or do I have this all wrong?
Thanks,
Jon
P.S. Tested on samba 2.2 and 3.0.
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