XP - Audit 10 connection limit

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In our corporate environment, we are sharing some data from XP machines
(printers, files)...nothing strange.

however, we've been getting intermittent issues with connections that I
suspect are related to the maximum of 10 network connections to XP (no beef
here, really understand and know that this exists).

What I'm trying to do is AUDIT these failed connection attempts so i can
show my boss that this is INDEED the reason why we are having these issues.
(he's not taking my word on it).

is there a way to setup an audit policy / event log message for each time a
connection attempt is made but fails because it's already at the 10
connection max?

if i can prove with event/audit data that this is indeed the issue, i can
make a business case for putting some other member server or NAS device in
place. right now, i need to verify my suspicions.
 
If you have reached the max open connection limit it will be recorded in the
event viewer. You can, of course, patch this so that XP will allow unlimited
connections. The following link gives you the patch. http://www.lvllord.de/
and here is the MS article\workaround on the subject
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=314053 the part of that
article that relates to what you want is here:

TcpNumConnections
Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Number
Valid Range: 0 - 0xfffffe
Default: 0xfffffe
Description: This parameter limits the maximum number of connections that
TCP can have open at the same time.

Post back if you need more. TTFN.
 
just to confirm - i'm not looking at TCP connections, but File & Printer
connections...different thing.

NT4W, W2kpro, XP all have a hardcoded 10-session limit for F&P. I accept
that this limit exists. i need to capture an event to build a factual report
that this is indeed the root cause of our intermittent failed drive mapping
and printer connections.
 
: In our corporate environment, we are sharing some data from XP
machines
: (printers, files)...nothing strange.
:
: however, we've been getting intermittent issues with connections
that I
: suspect are related to the maximum of 10 network connections to XP
(no beef
: here, really understand and know that this exists).
:
: What I'm trying to do is AUDIT these failed connection attempts so
i can
: show my boss that this is INDEED the reason why we are having
these issues.
: (he's not taking my word on it).
:
: is there a way to setup an audit policy / event log message for
each time a
: connection attempt is made but fails because it's already at the
10
: connection max?
:
: if i can prove with event/audit data that this is indeed the
issue, i can
: make a business case for putting some other member server or NAS
device in
: place. right now, i need to verify my suspicions.
:
:


There should be 2 places to find this failed connections - the
computer attempting to connect where the remote has reached a max,
should get a connection refused in the event log, again the remote
computer should get a similar connection refused in its event log.
Hope that helps.

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