Bug 109205

Summary:	Change default value of MAX_CONNECTIONS constant
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Jesus Ortega (a.k.a Nitebirdz) <nitebirdz>
Component:	samba	Assignee:	Simo Sorce <ssorce>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	2.1	CC:	samba-bugs-list
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Description Jesus Ortega (a.k.a Nitebirdz) 2003-11-05 17:02:07 UTC

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Description of problem:
The file "smbd/conn.c" contains a hard coded limitation for
connections that is causing problems with Citrix servers.

conn.c:#define MAX_CONNECTIONS 256

If there are many users connected to a Citrix Metaframe server, the
connections to shares start fo fail with the following error:

ERROR! Out of connection structures


Simply changing the value to something like 1024 and recompiling fixes
the problem, which also appears to be present in Samba 3.0 and RHEL
3.0.  Since the target market of the product is the enterprise, you
may want to consider bumping up this value.  There is an existing bug
at samba.org (see below), but I wonder if perhaps you might consider
building your RPM with this change.

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
samba-2.2.7-3.21as

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure Windows system as Citrix Metaframe server
2. Configure shares over Samba
    

Additional info:

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-19 19:23:49 UTC

This bug is filed against RHEL2.1, which is in maintenance phase.
During the maintenance phase, only security errata and select mission
critical bug fixes will be released for enterprise products.  Since
this bug does not meet that criteria, it is now being closed.

For more information of the RHEL errata support policy, please visit:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/

If you feel this bug is indeed mission critical, please contact your
support representative.  You may be asked to provide detailed
information on how this bug is affecting you.