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by the_roamer 2 views

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I am having problems on my network server not being available as there are too many connections. Currently, we are running NETBEUI protocol. I can clear this up by loggin on to the server and clearing the connections manually through Server Manager, but this is a temporary fix. I have tried the "Persistent Connections" key on the registry, updating license meter, etc. Anyone help me out?

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by stillatit

1. If your server is not actually NT server, (like if it is really running workstation), you only get 10 simultaneous connections.

2. How is your licensing set up? If you do not use per seat licensing, the server will track the number of connections. It should not count multiple connections from the same client. The clients will have to disconnect when they are done, however. If they leave any connection up, they are still counted. It may take a client logoff to actually disconnect a client -- a shutdown may not do it.

3. Unless you have many more clients than licenses, it might be a good idea to switch to per seat licensing. This means that you buy one license (CAL) for every client, but that client can connect multiple times to every server.

Good luck.

by curacao_dejavu

yes, sure.
First check your licence manager if you are not out of compliance with the license. If so take the appropiate action.

regards,

by curacao_dejavu

MS KB Article ID: Q179483. has the full scope

The user may be attempting to connect to a share that is configured to allows a specific number of connections, and that number of connections has been reached. Check the properties on the share on the server.

RESOLUTION
If the specified number of connections has been reached, increase the user limit or set the value to "maximum allowed."

MORE INFORMATION
There are several other parameters that you can check when troubleshootinga problem with limited connections to the computer.

Verify that the computer is running a retail version of Windows NT. To verify this, check the Licensing tool in Control Panel and make sure that the following message does not appear:

Not available in NFR (Not for Resale)/MSDN Edition of Windows NT
Server.

The server may be configured with Per Server licensing and the number of licenses may be exhausted. A quick check to see if this is the problem would be turn off the License Logging Service on the computer.

Check to see if the server was configured by upgrading a computer running Windows NT Workstation to Windows NT Server. If it was, the following registry parameter may need to be increased from a hex value of0xa (10) to 0xFFFFFFFF:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer \Parameters\Users

NOTE: The above registry key is one path; it has been wrapped for readability.

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