[KLUG Members] samba max number of connections

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > I'm running a really old version of samba [in the status screen via swat it says 2.2.7-security-rollup-fix]. I know it's time to upgrade.
> > I just started to run into a problem that I wonder if I can work around until I get a chance to upgrade this box. When attempting to map a drive on an XP box I get this message:
> >>System error 71 has occurred.
> >>No more connections can be made to this remote computer at 
> >>this time because there are already as many connections as the computer 
> >>can accept.
> > Is there a setting I can check/change to allow more connections? 
> This is old but a "solution" is alluded to,
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2002-October/054546.html
> <snip>
> The limit is hardcoded in the source and is 128 from 2.2.3a
> and onwards.
> </snip>

We've run into this problem on our print server, back in the 2.2.x days.
More than 128 concurrent print jobs would jigger the thing.  I just
changed this value to 254 and recompiled the package.  I haven't made
any changes to 3.0.x and haven't ever seen the problem again.  Usually
with idling out connections you would never see this, even on a large
and busy network.
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