No more connections can be made to computer

[Guest]

I have a network in my office. All computers are Windows XP. To date,
everything worked great. We recently added several more computers to the
network. We do not have a central "server" computer that acts as the
centerpoint. Instead, all computers have files on them and they are all
equally accessible to each other. However, the recent addition of
employees/computers has the personnel accessing one particular computer quite
a bit. On occasion, when the employees are all bottle-necked into this one
computer, some of us cannot access the computer and we get a message that
says "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."
What is this? Does XP have an internal limit on how many computers it allows
to connect to it? Is there a way to fix this? Do we need to install a
central "server" that will store all of the files? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

M Ridzon

 

[BobC]

I have a network in my office. All computers are Windows XP. To date,
everything worked great. We recently added several more computers to the
network. We do not have a central "server" computer that acts as the
centerpoint. Instead, all computers have files on them and they are all
equally accessible to each other. However, the recent addition of
employees/computers has the personnel accessing one particular computer quite
a bit. On occasion, when the employees are all bottle-necked into this one
computer, some of us cannot access the computer and we get a message that
says "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."
What is this? Does XP have an internal limit on how many computers it allows
to connect to it? Is there a way to fix this? Do we need to install a
central "server" that will store all of the files? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

M Ridzon

XP-Pro 10 connections
XP-Home 5 connections

These are not computer connections but rather concurrent services
connections. These are hard limits that can not be by-passed. Answer is to
get a server OS.

 

[Guest]

Bob,

Thanks for the input. If I set up a server operating system, how many
connections can the server have simultaneously? Is it limitless??

Matt Ridzon