Maximum Connections Reached

[Guest]

We have several network printers running from a Windows 2000 server. We have
an intermittent problem with users losing their connection to all the
printers. In Control Panel, Printers and Faxes, the printers show "unable to
connect." They get this error message "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." I've looked this up on the
internet, and the only answer seems to be "wait awhile, then try again."
What causes this problem, and is there a solution?" This is happening on
both Windows 98 and XP.

 

[Danny Sanders]

If this is truly a server operating system how many licenses does it have
listed? How many clients are trying to connect?


hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

"darlad(no response)@amsmainline.com"

 

[Guest]

It is a WIN 2K Professional SP4 workstation functioning as a print server.
There are several shared printers on this workstation. The problem is just
bouncing around from user to user. I can ping the server by name and by IP,
but I can't send print to it from different computers throughout the day.
Sometimes I can stop and restart the Print Spooler service, and that seems to
fix it temporarily. It is becoming more and more persistent, affecting
several users throughout the day.

 

[Danny Sanders]

It is not the 98 and XP clients.

It is a WIN 2K Professional SP4 workstation functioning as a print server

The problem is with the operating system the "print server is running". All
MS operating systems other than the Server version ONLY accept 10 concurrent
connections. There is no way to change this, (if there were MS would not
sell *any* of the more expensive Server operating systems).

Move to Win 2k server.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE


"darlad(no response)@amsmainline.com"

 

[jas0n]

It is a WIN 2K Professional SP4 workstation functioning as a print server.
There are several shared printers on this workstation. The problem is just
bouncing around from user to user. I can ping the server by name and by IP,
but I can't send print to it from different computers throughout the day.
Sometimes I can stop and restart the Print Spooler service, and that seems to
fix it temporarily. It is becoming more and more persistent, affecting
several users throughout the day.

w2k pro can only handle 10 concurrent connections if i remember
correctly ... upgrade to server will solve that.