Limit to num of shares?

[David Ford]

James Sutherland wrote:

> 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.)

Ah.  I thought it popped up in this conversation that the poster was talking about
only samba systems.

-d