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[Kimosabi2]

Background: Small business, about 15 users sharing a mapped drive file on a Windows workgroup network. Most use Win XP. They are receiving a 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." Anyone know what this file share limit is on a workgroup network? Can I do anything to increase this limit other than install a server and create a domain?

thanks

Bob...

 

[bcastner]

Rick,

I thought I was odd running two versions of Netware (3.12 and 6.1), Red Hat with SAMBA, Win2k Server SP4 and Windows 2003 in my Home LAN.

I have a good reason for all of them, but you can find folks who put me to shame in their homes.

 

[Rick998]

Bill,

You are odd and pop up in the strangest places <grin>....

Off-topic I know, but this sounds like a 'my willy's bigger than yours' contest so I concede defeat <ROFL - Brit humour! (or humor... as you folks call it)>.

I don't touch Novell at home... I get enough grief at work.

My home setup is a Win XP Pro box acting as a firewall/gateway to a broadband connnection (soon to be changed to a Linux-based firewall due to slowdown using ZoneAlarm Pro).

This is forwarded via (freeware) Jana 2 Proxy server application and second NIC to internal home network (Wow, how sad is that!) of 3 x XP Pro boxes (work, storage, test), 1 x SME 6.0.1 Linux-based server (for web/intranet services), 1 x Win 98 box (for updating disk images), 1 x generic Win XP box (for updating disk images for work), 1 x SuSe Linux 9 box (testing), 1 x Xandros 2.1 box (testing), 1 x Knoppix box (playing around) and 1 x RedHat box (swapping between 7, 8 and 9 for test purposes).

I'm afraid these all drive my partner nuts 'cos she has difficulty hearing the television in the evening (but at least it keeps the central heating bills to a minimum).

I maintain it could be worse... she could be a golf widow <FOCLCSNW - Falls Off Chair Laughing 'Cos She's Not Watching>.

PS - I note that none of this is relevant to Kimosabi2's query <grin>.

Regards,

Rick

 

[gpalmer711]

<---- Hides ashamedly in the corner with his single PC

Greg Palmer
Free Software for Adminstrators

http://www.palmersoft.co.uk

 

[bcastner]

gpalmer711,

Count yourself lucky.

Bill

 

[bcastner]

Rick998,

Not "odd", see my thoughts about participating in the user community here:

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...CMTYDataSvcParams^&Title=Windows - Networking

The SME application your are running is just great stuff. (Red Hat Linux with SAMBA, pre-configured). See:

http://contribs.org/modules/news/

I regularly use this on sites that run into licensing issues in Workgroups.
It is just great stuff, and freeware. This would be a good first entrance to Linux.

As for the British members of the Forum, I love them all. A forum member such as Ken Wright is enough to make me forget the Revolutionary War. But there is an odd sense of humour that I fail to get, and a joke explained is no longer funny for either sender or recipient.

 

[Kimosabi2]

Thanks to all for this thread. Lots of great information on SME Server and diversions. I am running SME 6.0 on my home network and it works great that is until I decided to go to Raid-1. I reinstalled the SME from scratch added a secind hard disk and setup the server. Works very slow on write to the server but great with reads. I guess I need a Raid-1 hardware card to take the load off the 400Mhz AMD K6-2 processor. What do you all think of Promise FastTrak TX2000 PCI Ultra ATA RAID Controller on SME 6.0? Will it work?

Bob...

 

[bcastner]

Hardware Raid-1 in this instance.

 

[Kimosabi2]

I don't understand your reply Bill.

Bob...

 

[bcastner]

A controller that has RAID-1 BIOS support.