Hi Gang,

I'm having a heck of time using File and Printer sharing on our file
server, a Windows XP Pro system. The moment after I've restarted the
system all the computers in the network can connect to it without
issue. However, after some random length of time nobody can connect
to the shared partition. The sharing is so interupted that when I'm
on the file server named \\Breadbasket, I can't even open up the
shares from the same system. Once I reboot, again everything works
fine. We have Norton AntiVirus 2007 installed and recently installed
Norton Ghost 12.0. Between the two I suspect Norton AntiVirus. Also
the network card is an Intel Pro/100 VE with the latest drivers
(2007/09/05).

Thanks,
Christian Blackburn

Christian Blackburn wrote:
> I'm having a heck of time using File and Printer sharing on our file
> server, a Windows XP Pro system. The moment after I've restarted
> the system all the computers in the network can connect to it
> without issue. However, after some random length of time nobody
> can connect to the shared partition. The sharing is so interupted
> that when I'm on the file server named \\Breadbasket, I can't even
> open up the shares from the same system. Once I reboot, again
> everything works fine. We have Norton AntiVirus 2007 installed and
> recently installed Norton Ghost 12.0. Between the two I suspect
> Norton AntiVirus. Also the network card is an Intel Pro/100 VE
> with the latest drivers (2007/09/05).

How many computers are attempting to connect to this server?
In how many ways? Printers? Drive Shares? Etc?

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Shenan Stanley
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Hi Shehan,

Thanks for getting back to me.

> How many computers are attempting to connect to this server?

6-8 on Windows XP Pro. At night there's maybe 6 connected to the
network and 0-3 connecting remotely using VNC.

> In how many ways? Printers? Drive Shares? Etc?

The article I read indicated that you could have 7 file shares and two
printers from one system and it'd still only count as one connection.
The article went on to confuse matters by stating that if other
services (for us that'd be Norton Ghost 12, MiniWebSvr, & UltraVNC)
are making use of the network then you could be running out of
connections. I would also like to state that I haven't seen that out
of connections error, but that doesn't mean that Norton Ghost, the
application, isn't getting that error while it's trying to run
backups. Is there a program that can tell me at any given moment how
many licensed connections are in use? Also in December we're going to
switch to Win2K3, but I would like to have things work as well as
possible in the mean time. We have a non-microsoft web server which I
believe should help save connections. Are IIS HTTP connections
counted seperately from 10 lan systems using resources?

Thanks,
Christian Blackburn
Fast and Friendly Computer Repair

> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP