Increasing number of network connections in Windows 2k
Does anyone know what registry key controls the number of network connections in Win 2k Workstation and Server? Thanks!
Does anyone know what registry key controls the number of network connections in Win 2k Workstation and Server?
Thanks!
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Maximum numbers of connections for WINDOWS 2000 PROFESSIONAL is that the 10 session limit is related to SMB or File Share connections. There cannot be more than 10 concurrent connections to shares on a Win2k Professional machine. That can be 10 users that have one share open each, or one user that has 10 shares open! If you have problems with users keeping too many shares open, you can configure the timeout period for connections to be shorter. The default period is 15 minutes. This can be done in the registry or via Group Policy.
The RAS issue is a little tricky, but it does make sense. You can have a single *inbound* RAS connection via *each* RAS interface. Therefore, you can have one user RAS in via a VPN connection, one user RAS in via a dial-up connection, and another user RAS in via the direct serial connection. There is still a limited on the number of users *per connection* to one, so a second person could not use a VPN connection to access the Win2k Pro machine. Note that in this example, if some were to RAS in via dial-up and another person RAS in via VPN, you would need two modems connected to that computer: one for the direct dial-up user and the second to be connected to the Internet to accept the VPN connection.
The RAS users also count toward the number of SMB connections that would be made to shares. But as long as there are 10 or fewer active SMB connections, the users will still be able to access a share. NOTE: even though there may be 10 active connections to SMB resources, the RAS users will still be able to authenticate and join the network. They just won't be able to access anything.
Windows 2000 Server allows an "unlimited" amount of connections .... based upon hardware, CALs, VPN connections are limited to 255 I believe.
Here's an article for ya
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q179483&ID=KB;EN-US;Q179483&
And as to my knowledge there is no way to get around this limitation.
HTH
The RAS issue is a little tricky, but it does make sense. You can have a single *inbound* RAS connection via *each* RAS interface. Therefore, you can have one user RAS in via a VPN connection, one user RAS in via a dial-up connection, and another user RAS in via the direct serial connection. There is still a limited on the number of users *per connection* to one, so a second person could not use a VPN connection to access the Win2k Pro machine. Note that in this example, if some were to RAS in via dial-up and another person RAS in via VPN, you would need two modems connected to that computer: one for the direct dial-up user and the second to be connected to the Internet to accept the VPN connection.
The RAS users also count toward the number of SMB connections that would be made to shares. But as long as there are 10 or fewer active SMB connections, the users will still be able to access a share. NOTE: even though there may be 10 active connections to SMB resources, the RAS users will still be able to authenticate and join the network. They just won't be able to access anything.
Windows 2000 Server allows an "unlimited" amount of connections .... based upon hardware, CALs, VPN connections are limited to 255 I believe.
Here's an article for ya
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q179483&ID=KB;EN-US;Q179483&
And as to my knowledge there is no way to get around this limitation.
HTH
