RE: how many browser connections, and do mapped drives count?





"trink" wrote:

> Hi,
> Seems like I should know this (or at least be able to find it definitively,
> but I can't). How many browser connections will a W2K3 server support at
> once? Does that number of connections include mapped network drives, or not?
> I have a server which really gets very little use: there aren't more than
> 5-10 other XP systems on the net with it, yet people are frequently locked
> out with the "too many connetions" error. Sometimes you can get it, other
> times not. This is the first time I've even thought about how many *browser*
> connections a server could support - did something change between win 2000
> server and W2K3?
> help?
> Trink
by *browser* do you mean windows explorer uesrs visiting \\servername\share ?
if you do, what licensing model did you choose at install? (did you specify
the number of CALs you have, or did you state that each client should have
it's own CAL ?
.



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