Bug 641379 – Change the limit of winbindd clients dynamically

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Bug 641379 - Change the limit of winbindd clients dynamically

Summary:	Change the limit of winbindd clients dynamically

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	samba3x (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	5.6
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Guenther Deschner
QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Blocks:	650245
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Reported:	2010-10-08 10:58 EDT by Pierre Carrier
Modified:	2017-06-30 08:56 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

See Also:
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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Clones:	650245 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed:	2011-01-13 17:48:15 EST
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proposed patch (5.09 KB, patch) 2010-10-08 10:59 EDT, Pierre Carrier	no flags	Details \| Diff
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External Trackers
Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2011:0054	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	samba3x bug fix and enhancement update	2011-01-12 12:15:21 EST

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Description Pierre Carrier 2010-10-08 10:58:59 EDT

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 10:59:50 EDT

Created attachment 452362 [details]
proposed patch

Comment 20 Eva Kopalova 2010-12-15 03:40:32 EST

    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 17:48:15 EST

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

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