Limit to num of shares?

[James Sutherland]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, David Ford wrote:
> James Sutherland wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Mayers, P J wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, they do. Try creating a network share, then mapping it from 11
> > > different NT clients. You'll get a nice message telling you you've exceeded
> > > your connection limit on the 11th client.
> >
> > Ah! The limit, apparently, applies to TCP connections. (In fact, ISTR it
> > is 10 connections to different hosts in any 10 minute period.) They don't
> > enforce this one - if they did, the machine would be a bit broken for WWW
> > browsing etc. Just browsing round MS's own site would probably bring you
> > pretty close.
> 
> Where exactly do you get this from?

The NT Workstation license. In fact, having looked more closely, it only
applies to INBOUND connections. However, it is NOT just SMB connections,
but any inbound network connection. (This is to stop people using NT
Workstation as, for example, a WWW server.)


James.