ClearFoundation

Let me start by saying that ClearOS is by far the best software of its kind! I cant get enough and I also can not wait to use OS6. With that said my question is about samba and simultaneous logins. Basically how many? Can it be modified? Is there any way to see what computers are active? I seem to not be able to have open/manipulate a certain file, on the same samba user account on multiple computers. Any information would be useful as I have searched and others seem stumped. Thank you!

No idea how many simultaneous connections Samba will accept - is it limited? File limitations will prevent more than one person accessing a file at the same time. Are you referring to multiple access to the same file? or just multiple access to the server using the same login?

You can see what computers are presently connected with the 'smbstatus' command

I was doing it (multiple logins/clients for one user) a loooong time ago. I don't think I set anything special in the samba config but I think I did do some damage to roaming profiles ( I know I had troubles with them and think it might have been due to multiple logins).

I had a quick look in my old samba book and couldn't find any mention of it. I'll have a bit more of a read and report if I find anything.

Multiple logins work for one user if roaming profiles are not used. I have seen some probs otherwise. FYI: You can tweak the roaming profile to be separate by os version (xp, vista, 7...) - if that helps

To echo everyone else's answers it's possible but has problems even for an all windows environment.

serverfault.com/questions/298418/roaming...-logins-of-same-user

On a samba3 setup I have simultaneous logins are allowed but I've redirected as many folders as I can so that the write last conflicts are only likely to happen to appdata\roaming and the registry hives (like ntuser.dat). But.... Those are the files that cause problems and I've had corrupted profiles in the past because of the write conflicts on logout.

I've seen simultaneous logins work before at a university but they were using mandatory profiles (read only profile data) and redirected everything else.