On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 03:55 PM, Paul Ketelaar wrote:
Samba Gurus,You can limit the number of concurrent connections to a share using the 'max connections' option in smb.conf, which is set on a per-share basis.
How can the number of concurrent connections to a Samba share
be limited.
Say for example you have an article of software for which you only have
5 licences. When all five seats are used and 6th connection is attempted
the user cannot connect.
I actually use this to arbitrate access to an old DOS application in use at one site, which can only operate with one user at a time - if two run, data corruption can occur. This application is on a special share by itself, with the setting 'max connections = 1' for that share. I use a setting of 'deadtime = 1', which is a very low setting, to kill clients that no longer have open files on the share. That way a user cannot lock other users out of the share indefinitely once they have closed the application and no longer have open files. Normally though, a batch file is run (from an icon on the user's desktop) that maps the share (using 'net use'), runs the app, and then unmaps the share when done (net use /d).
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