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Len Cuff
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      10-19-2007
I have a small network of 4 PC's and 3 of them share drives from my
PC. All worked fine when I had XP Home but since upgrading to Vista
Home Premium the other 3 PC's often get a message saying that the
share in not accesible due to there being to many connections? A
reboot of my PC always fixes it but is there something I need to do to
stop it happening as this was never a problem on XP.

TIA



cheers,
Len
 
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Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]
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      10-19-2007
Well, that "Too many connections message" can't be right since Vista Home
Premium supports up to at least 5 connections for workgroup sharing.

Click Start > Network
Click "Network and Sharing Center"
Under "Sharing and Discovery" make sure the following are turned on: Network
Discovery, File Sharing, Public folder sharing, Password protected sharing,
Media Sharing.
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"Len Cuff" <> wrote in message
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>I have a small network of 4 PC's and 3 of them share drives from my
> PC. All worked fine when I had XP Home but since upgrading to Vista
> Home Premium the other 3 PC's often get a message saying that the
> share in not accesible due to there being to many connections? A
> reboot of my PC always fixes it but is there something I need to do to
> stop it happening as this was never a problem on XP.
>
> TIA
>
>
>
> cheers,
> Len



 
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Len Cuff
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      10-19-2007
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:32:05 -0500, "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]"
<> wrote:

>Well, that "Too many connections message" can't be right since Vista Home
>Premium supports up to at least 5 connections for workgroup sharing.
>
>Click Start > Network
>Click "Network and Sharing Center"
>Under "Sharing and Discovery" make sure the following are turned on: Network
>Discovery, File Sharing, Public folder sharing, Password protected sharing,
>Media Sharing.

Andre,
Checked all of that and everything as it should be. It 'seems'
that once my daughter connects to the share and then either switches
off or hibernates her laptop, my PC remembers the connection so when
she tries to reconnect it treats it as another 'new' connection and
eventually runs out of connections available. Never happened on XP so
I'm guessing there must be a fix somewhere for this?



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Len
 
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