WinXP clients can not connect to W2K TS Server

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From: Harrison Midkiff (HMidkiff_at_aviinc.com)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:52:09 -0400

Hello:

All of a sudden today about 1/2 of my users running WinXP accessing my TS
W2K server started getting an error message of:

The client could not establish a connection to the remote computer
The most likely cause for this error are:
1. Remote connections might not be enabled at the remote computer
2. The maximum number of connections was exceeded at the remote computer
3. A network error occurred while establishing the connection

I did some checking and found some articles that noted this was a problem
the licensing between the XP clients and the server. I am very lost of what
avenue to proceed. If the error was related to a license I would expect a
different message.

Harrison Midkiff

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