[Samba] max smbd processes

2010-01-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Samba 3.2.5 on Debian Lenny From: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/server_security.html Samba is able to limit the number of concurrent connections when smbd is launched as a daemon (not from inetd). The 'max smbd processes' smb.conf option allows Administrators to define the maximum number of

Re: [Samba] max smbd processes

2010-01-27 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 05:03:37PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Samba 3.2.5 on Debian Lenny From: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/server_security.html Samba is able to limit the number of concurrent connections when smbd is launched as a daemon (not from inetd). The 'max smbd processes'

Re: [Samba] max smbd processes

2010-01-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jeremy Allison put forth on 1/27/2010 5:18 PM: Is max smbd processes not an accurate description? Would it better be described as max smbd concurrent clients or max smbd user processes? Yes, that's a better description. Understood. There's also the printer background lpq updater process,

Re: [Samba] max smbd processes

2010-01-27 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:21:36PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Aha, so that's what the third one is. As I don't do printer sharing this possibility slipped my mind. I'm not so resource constrained as to start hacking source. I always stick with my distro's packages unless extreme

Re: [Samba] max smbd processes

2010-01-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jeremy Allison put forth on 1/27/2010 7:20 PM: On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:21:36PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I noticed in the documentation I quoted earlier something about running Samba from inetd. Is this (easily) doable? Would running from inetd be advantageous in my low resource