10 users limit - bit of a pickle

[tekquest]

Guys,

I have been trying to use a Windows 2000 professional computer as a quasi server, I have just found out that the limit is 10 concurrent connections, I have read documents from microsoft and other peoples questions regarding this.

Is there any way of making it 12 concurrent connections? or is it impossible to do, go and buy windows 2000 server?

Thanks,

Luke

 

[jrbarnett]

Either buy the server OS or change to Windows 98, which doesn't have such limits - or use an alternative OS such as Linux/Samba which again does not have such restrictions.

John

 

[Lemon13]

no, get the sever

 

[tekquest]

Hey guys,

What i suspected, thanks for your replies!

Luke

 

[jrjr2u]

10 is the limit but if you uncheck http keepalive it will dump the dead users faster.

 

[PuterLuver]

hey jrjr2u, can you tell me where that checkbox is for http keepalive? My replacement for my last job would like that tip. Thanks ,

-PuterLuver

 

[bcastner]

http has zero to do with this issue.

 

[PuterLuver]

if not http, is there still a value you can change to drop idle users? -- timeout?

-PuterLuver

 

[detroit]

I seem to remember there being a fix for this under NT4. There was a registry change that could be made to allow more than 10 users.

Detroit

 

[PuterLuver]

detroit, I beleive you are talking about this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing
_____________________

Do you know if there's a keepalive threshold somewhere that drops users if they idle too long?

-PuterLuver

 

[Davetoo]

A "fix" implies something is broken. In this case, MS intended to limit the OS to 10 connections. If you need more, you need to get a different OS.

I'm Certifiable, not certified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[tekquest]

PuterLuver,

Inside this key, is it possible to modify the max users?

 

[PuterLuver]

tekquest,

I don't know. I just know about the reg key. I thought you were trying this on Windows 2000 Professional (aka NT5)? To answer your question the easy way, I would get 2000 or 2003 server if you can afford it, you'll be glad you did.

-PuterLuver

 

[tekquest]

PuterLuver,

Thanks for the reply, I was afraid you would say that!

L

 

[ArkM]

Or change to (free Linux+Samba as a file server w/o that limits...