Hello, Thanks for all the answers. So my assumption was correct that there is no limitation or patent violation.
After reading all these performance numbers I would like to ask if someone would be willing to share their hardware information for any installation with more then 10.000 concurrent users having their home drive and their project drive on the samba server? Are there any installations out there or should we go for 2 servers with a limit of 7.000 users per samba server? Our servers have a single 2.8Ghz processor with 4GB memory running Debian 3.0. Can we leverage these servers or should we go for a multi CPU machine with more memory? Does a multi CPU mainboard help at all? For the backend we are thinking of a fibre channel JBOD which is already in place for our SQL and Exchange servers. So my current problem is that we have to get rid of our old NT4 machines. One server vendor offers HP WSS server and tells us that 15.000 concurrent users are no problem at all on a 2 CPU machine with 8GB of memory. Really? On the other side a company called Network Appliance want to offer us a NAS head. I haven't seen any pricing yet but they asked me if these 15.000 users are concurrent or streaming? In addition HP and Network appliance told me that they can offer MMC plugins for the NAS heads. Does samba provide any kind of MMC plugin? My assumption: Every user having his windows profile on the server will have a session open. Each CIFS session does not imply to be a stream. They can be idle or they can be streaming. If many of them stream simultaneously then they are concurrent users. Right? I really appreciate all the responses here. They help me a lot. I am now in the difficult situation to have to find the best and as usual the cheapest solution for our management. I like the samba approach but I have to create a matrix now between all these solutions. Currently I am a little bit lost but I will try my best here. P.S.: If all my questions are too heavy for this dlist please tell me. I am just trying to solve my problem. Any guidance is really appreciated. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Pseudomizer -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Pseudomizer Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. September 2005 21:23 An: samba@lists.samba.org Betreff: [Samba] max concurrent CIFS connections Wichtigkeit: Hoch Hello, I need some help please. I have been told from an administrator that Samba does only support up to 3.000 concurrent CIFS connections and each connections reserve 5MB of memory. If this is true that I would need 15GB of memory to support 3.000 concurrent CIFS sessions how many people have this amount of memory in any server? The second argument which he used was and I quote him now: "Approaches that increase the Samba architectural limit are judged to be in violation of Microsoft patents and therefore cannot be implemented" I think this guy is not telling the truth and due to this I am asking this question over here. I hope that I write to the right dlist. So I would like to know the following please: - What is the maximum limit for concurrent CIFS connections? - Does Samba really reserve 5MB per CIFS connection? - Is there really a patent of Microsoft for 3.000 CIFS connections? If yes, what is the solution for more users? I need this information because my company is considering implementing Samba to replace Microsoft NT4 servers and to do a server consolidation. But my company has 7.000 users in the first location and 5.000 users in the second location. If we want to place all home directories for all users on one Samba server I would clearly get a problem if the restrictions above apply. Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Pseudomizer -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba