Re: maximum number of sessions

The answer is to deploy an actual server of some sort rather than try to
fiddle with running a client OS as a server. If all you need is a big box
that everyone can connect to (it doesn't need to run any services or
software) consider a NAS or SAN storage unit.

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"Doug Taylor" <dtaylor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hiya

We have 6 pcs connecting to a 7 pc we call our server. The network is
peer
to peer all the machines including the server are running windows xp pro.
Since adding the seventh machine to the network we are unable to map
drives
to the server from different machines intermittently. When mapping from
dos
using the "net use" command we are told that the maximum number of
connections has been reached. When I look at the server and run the net
session command (or go through computer management sessions) we can see
the ten connections, but it is showing multiple connections for the same
computer. We disconnected the sessions and browsed to the server through
network neighborhood (or run \\server) and Net session shows one
connection. If we then map a drive to the servers ip address we see
another
session being created.

Are these really two connections and are we really exceeding our limit of
ten users?
Why does mapping a drive using the net use command and the ip address eg
net use v: \\192.168.0.1\data create one session and on the same
machine
using net use g: \\server\data create another session.
If we map any more drives future sessions are not created.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks




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