RE: Maximum No of connections && win2k

["William Stucke" <William at zanet.co.za>]

Hi Patrick,

I suspect that your problem doesn't lie with TCP/IP connections, but rather
with user licences. If I remember correctly, W2K Pro only allows 10
simultaneous connections (i.e. connected clients). You get to 8 and run out,
because you are logged on to that machine and one other process, with your 8
client connections, makes 10.

Using W2K Server allows you to have as many connections as you have CALs
(Client Access Licences). Needless to say, these cost money ...

Or, put the printer on a W98 machine. These don't care how many connections
you have in a peer-to-peer network.


Regards,

William Stucke
ZAnet Internet Services (Pty) Ltd
mailto:William at zanet.co.za
+27 11 465-0700


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-afnog at afnog.org [mailto:owner-afnog at afnog.org]On Behalf Of
Patrick Okui
Sent: 2002/03/06 23:15
To: Afnog list
Subject: Maximum No of connections && win2k


Hi all,
There is a small LAN - actually an Internet cafe with 29
computers - with about 4 (or less) running windows 98
and the rest running windows 2000 professional.
One of the machines (call it admin) runs the admin
interface for the cafe timing software  and the rest run
the client version.

This same admin machine recently had a Canon LBP 810
printer installed to replace whatever printer it had before.
But, when I tried to install the new printer on the other
machines, I got through 8 of them and after that I got a
message which went something like...
"The connection to this machine has been denied because
  it has reached its maximum number of connections".
I tried tweaking the registry but all I could find
(from www.winguides.com) were ways of reducing the time
in which tcp connections are kept in a WAIT state... and
not much about NetBIOS connections.

Could anyone tell me what's going on....what I'm missing and
how to fix it??? - and as an afterthought... will changing admin's
OS to win2k server help ?? Because, this has happened before,
but the problem just "went away" after a few reboots.... though
not this time....On some of the machines, (actually most of them)
I did not delete the old printer (in Start->settings->printers)...
does this have an effect on the number of connections the
machines try to make to admin???

Thanks,
Patrick.

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