Yes, I am having problems here at Edward Waters College as well, resource exhaustion on the SAMBA side.
:( I currently have a crontab to reset smbd and nmbd on the affected servers at 3:00 am, this helps. Jan Mostert wrote: > Hello Drew, > > > > The past two months we have been searching for a solution for this > topic. We run Citrix Metaframe 1.8 on W2k TS and had lots of performance > problems. I sent some questions about this to the list, but got no answers. > > > > What we finally found that was causing the problem is that we had our > Internet Explorer cache on a network drive (NT 4.0 SP6 server). Putting > this on a local drive gave an enormous performance boost. > > > > We still are having problems with the performance to a Samba server. > Indeed: there is only one daemon per W2k server. We modified several > registry settings and turn off oplocks on both the Samba machine and the > W2k servers, but it does not make any difference. On the Samba server > (HP A400, Hp-UX 11i, Samba 2.0.7) we see a lot of disconnects and > reconnects. Why this is: no answer from the list! > > > > A way to force Samba to start more than one daemon is using a lot of > Netbios aliases for the same server. If you give every user an alias for > the service to connect, than every user gets its daemon. We have not yet > implemented this, so I don't know if there are any side-effects. I also > don't know if there is a maximum number of aliases. > > > > I think that there are not that many sites where they use W2k TS in > combination with Samba. That this combination gives problems is very > clear to me. I think this is a pitty; we almost were thinking of geting > rid of Samba and implement a Windows 2000 File server ... > > > > Kind regards, > > Jan Mostert > s are still not GeoDelft > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba