I have a WXP pro pc on a network, identical to all other pcs on the network.
It has been running fine, but I needed to rename the pc and received an error
after attempting that:

"Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using
more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous
connections to the server or shared resource."

This is something I have done literally a thousand times in my domain with
many different pcs and never had a problem. This is the ONLY pc this user
has, so I don't understand the "multiple connections" part of the error.
Please help!

On Sep 20, 12:54 pm, michael <mich...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> I have a WXP pro pc on a network, identical to all other pcs on the network.
> It has been running fine, but I needed to rename the pc and received an error
> after attempting that:
>
> "Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using
> more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous
> connections to the server or shared resource."
>
> This is something I have done literally a thousand times in my domain with
> many different pcs and never had a problem. This is the ONLY pc this user
> has, so I don't understand the "multiple connections" part of the error.
> Please help!

Is "File and Printer Sharing" enabled on this PC? It could be that
some other PC/user(s) have the shared resource open during the rename.

Not sure about that, but I will check that right away and try again. Thanks
for the tip.

"smlunatick" wrote:

> On Sep 20, 12:54 pm, michael <mich...@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > I have a WXP pro pc on a network, identical to all other pcs on the network.
> > It has been running fine, but I needed to rename the pc and received an error
> > after attempting that:
> >
> > "Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using
> > more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous
> > connections to the server or shared resource."
> >
> > This is something I have done literally a thousand times in my domain with
> > many different pcs and never had a problem. This is the ONLY pc this user
> > has, so I don't understand the "multiple connections" part of the error.
> > Please help!
>
> Is "File and Printer Sharing" enabled on this PC? It could be that
> some other PC/user(s) have the shared resource open during the rename.
>
>