Max Users connecting to Shared Folder

[Guest]

I believe I see that the max is 10 users connecting to a shared folder,
however, I have 13 users within the company. Is there anyway to share a
folder that more than 10 users can access?

A user normally connected to a shared folder tried today and got the
following message:
“The mapped network drive could not be created because the following error
has occurred:
No more connections can be made to this remote computer at this time because
there are already as many connections as the computer can accept.â€
Any workarounds for this?

 

[Steven L Umbach]

10 is the maximum for a non server Windows operating system so your choices
are to incovenience some users until another user disconnects or upgrading
to Windows 2003 Server. --- Steve

 

[Carl Hilton]

Yes, purchase a server license.

 

[Malke]

I believe I see that the max is 10 users connecting to a shared
folder,
however, I have 13 users within the company. Is there anyway to share
a folder that more than 10 users can access?

A user normally connected to a shared folder tried today and got the
following message:
“The mapped network drive could not be created because the following
error has occurred:
No more connections can be made to this remote computer at this time
because there are already as many connections as the computer can
accept.†Any workarounds for this?

As Mr. Umbach as told you, there is no way to circumvent the inbound
concurrent connections limitation if you are using a Microsoft
operating system. Here is the explanation:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314882

concurrent connections:

5 for XP Home
10 for XP Pro/Tablet/MCE
49 for SBS 2000
74 for SBS 2003
Unlimited for full Server O/Ses

Please note that the limitation is for *connections* and not computers
or users; one computer can make multiple connections to another
machine.

Another alternative if your pseudo-server is only acting as a file or
print server (and does not need to actually run Windows programs) is to
install a Linux operating system which does not have the inbound
connections limitation.

Malke

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I believe I see that the max is 10 users connecting to a shared folder,
however, I have 13 users within the company. Is there anyway to share a
folder that more than 10 users can access?

Replace WinXP with a Server operating system.




--

Bruce Chambers

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