Bug 641379

Summary: Change the limit of winbindd clients dynamically
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Pierre Carrier <prc>
Component: samba3xAssignee: Guenther Deschner <gdeschner>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 5.6CC: azelinka, dconsoli, dpal, mkhusid
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: samba3x-3.5.4-0.67.el5 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
The winbindd client limit was set to 200 and could not be changed. With this update, you can set the client limit manually with the command 'winbind max clients'.
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Description Pierre Carrier 2010-10-08 14:58:59 UTC 
Description of problem:
- The limit is hardcoded to 200
- This prevents customers from supporting more concurrency and being officially supported by Red Hat

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1. samba 3.5.?


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get 201 simultanous clients
  

Actual results:
1. In the logs:
Aug  4 08:41:56 nas05 winbindd[22235]: winbindd: Exceeding 200 client connections, no idle connection found


Expected results:
1. Being able to set to the limit to any higher value


Additional info:
Please find a patch attached. Already included in samba-3-6-test as eeb24afd78a6448e808aaf96dbd7d5abf51bbd40 ( http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2010-September/073323.html )
Comment 1 Pierre Carrier 2010-10-08 14:59:50 UTC 
Created attachment 452362 [details]
proposed patch
Comment 20 Eva Kopalova 2010-12-15 08:40:32 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
The winbindd client limit was set to 200 and could not be changed. With this update, you can set the client limit manually with the command 'winbind max clients'.
Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-13 22:48:15 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0054.html