On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Marcello Romani wrote: > >I am being asked to determine the feasibility of serving hundreds > >(300-400) of directories as individual shares instead of sharing a single > >parent directory.
There is no limit in the number of shares Samba can serve. If you list them all in smb.conf, you will however see increased memory usage, because all share definitions are loaded individually in all smbd processes. A single share definition takes around 3k (we're working on reducing that). So multiply the number of shares defined with the number of concurrent clients and you might see some memory footprint. So if you want to go REALLY large, in the order of thousands, you might want to look at the user shares. If the configuration options you can set in the user shares are sufficient for your needs, then these are much more memory-efficient because the definitions are only loaded in smbd on demand. Volker
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