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I try to browse my UNIX server and this message came up;
"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"

After a reboot of the UNIX server the problem was resolve. what can cause this error message? and how to avoid it?

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by frescalus

This is similar to a printer problem here at the Mission Readiness Exercise here in Ft. Polk, LA where people would print, then get the Blue Screen of Death, and the queue would be backed up and wouldn't print until all of the print jobs were canceled out of queue. My advice would be to keep an eye on the server for errors that would cause the connection queue to be backed up. That's the best answer I can give because I have never worked with a UNIX server before.

Neil

by paul d. masley

Either your server is set to allow only a specific number of connections (ie: 5 licenses = 5 connections) or it is not logging off discontinued connections. We have quote "Server Hogs" at our office. They will log on when they do not need to be there. What throws the system into a nightmare is when they go to another station and logs on there. This will slow down the system even though we have licenses for the entire network. I have seen this error on both UNIX and NT4 systems. Check yourlicenses and set your users up where they can log on to only one system at a time. Remember this change will reflect on the administrator logon, so you will need to change it.

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