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samba issue .... think it's because of max 10 connections

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tami

Lifer
i have 10 mount points on my linux box to access 10 separate folders on my windows box. (i've been adding them as needed, and they can't be grouped together, unfortunately)

it appears that i can get 9 working samba mounts, but when i try to mount all 10 points, i get the following error:

2374: session setup failed: ERRDOS - 71
SMB connection failed

where 2374 is the pid, i think, of the mount attempt (so it varies)

i really don't know how to combine the folders without a HUGE restructuring of my linux server (which is why they are mounted like they are right now). i'd really like to keep it as is, but is there a way to enable additional mount points -- or, if not, to keep the 10th?
 
is it safe to say that nobody here does linux, or does nobody here come to the tech support forum, or... ???
 
I just did a test using Samba on the Mac OS X, and it seems to connect and mount 10 shares fine. They were from different computers tho. It may be a problem where only a certain number of shares from any one computer can be connected at any one time. It may also be different on linux (when I used linux, I usually only had one share mounted at the most so I wouldn't know)
 
yeah, this is all from the same windows box that my linux box is mounting from. that seems to be the problem. i think thre is a limit to the number of mountable shares on the windows side of things, because i know that linux allows more mount points.

so how can i prevent this?
 
Are you using XP SP2 on the Windows box? That would explain it (I thought it was a problem with samba initially, until your last post 😛, but I was wondering why samba would have max 10 connections, hehe). There's a hack that you can do to Windows to increase the number of connections, but I can't remember where on the net it is talked about. Anyone know?
 
All non server versions on Windows have a max connection limit of 10. This is because Microsoft doesn't want people to use non server versions of windows as a server.

I have heard of a registry modification where you change the value of some key somewhere to get around this, but do realize that doing this is illegal inregards to Microsoft's EULA which you agreed to when you installed Windows. 🙂
 
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