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Sat, 17 Apr 2004

Microsoft Does The Impossible

From: Jeremy Allison 
To: samba@samba.org, samba-technical@samba.org
Subject: Microsoft restores MultipleUsersOnConnection registry entry for
        Windows 2000 Terminal servers

Hi all,

This is important news for Samba users who also have Windows 2000
terminal server. You may recall that Windows NT Terminal servers
had a registry entry, MultipleUsersOnConnection, which would cause
Terminal server to open a new TCP session for every logged on user.

Microsoft previously steadfastly refused to make this available
for Windows 2000 terminal servers, this causing poorer performance
with single-threaded Samba servers. As a side note, I was on a
conference call with Microsoft engineers where they claimed it
was technically *impossible* to add this change, due to the
"re-architecturing" of W2K Terminal server.

Well it turns out that corruption of internal data structures in the
Windows redirector (multi-threaded programming is *HARD*) has
forced them to re-introduce this change to Windows 2000.

Details are here :

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=818528