Re: maximum number of sessions

From the KB Article:
(http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;314882)

The only way system A will have multiple sessions to another system,
system Z, is if system A is running services that create logical
connections to system Z. For example, if a user is logged on to system
A as guest and a service is running on system A under the user1
account, and both the user and the service (as user1) establish
connections to system Z, two sessions are established. Each logon
session that uses the Server service counts against the connection
limit.

Have a pleasant day.

--
Jeffrey Randow (jeffreycentex@xxxxxxxxx)
Windows Networking MVP
http://www.networkblog.net

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:55:19 +1300, "Doug Taylor" <dtaylor@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Thanks

I am interested in the maximum number of sessions not connections. You are
able to have multiple connections to a xp pro machine, each connection
from the same computer does not constitute another session. The maximum
number of sessions allowed on an XP machine is 10. That is not the maximum
number of connections. I.e I can have 15 mapped drives from one machine to
another and only 1 session is created, I can have 7 machines connecting
to the xp po machine each with 15 mapped drives and only 7 sessions will be
created. The problem occurs when we map drives from machines using both
ipadresses and host names, then two sessions are created per machine.

This is an academic discussion now, as I have changed all the mapping to use
an ipaddress, however I noticed when we use network neighbourhood to connect
from machine "A" to machine "B", machine "B" shows an additional session,
even though machine "A" already has mapped drives to machine "B".

In that case it may be better to map all the drives using host names rather
than ipaddresses as using network neighbourhood would then not create an
additional session.

I was really interested to know why mapping using host names and ipaddresses
creates 2 sessions. It may be that I need to post this query at a networking
type forum, what do u think.

Your comments would be appreciated.

Also can you point me in the direction of some NAS software distributions.

Thanks

Douglas Taylor


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