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title: Max 10 simultaneous SMB-connections
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layout: default
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created: 2008-07-15 22:02:53 +0200
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updated: 2008-07-15 22:02:53 +0200
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toc: false
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tags:
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- know-how
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- software
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- windows
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- samba
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- smb
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Windows XP Professional only allows 10 simultaneous connections to shares and printer spoolers. The eleventh user gets
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a *System error #71* message. The unused connections get freed after 30 minutes which is a bit late since often you
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just need a few files or to print some pages but this blocks the connection for 30 minutes.
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To make things better, you can issue the command
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net config server /autodisconnect:3
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which sets the limit to 3 minutes. You can even set this to `0` to free a slot almost instantly.
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This value can also be changed in the registry. The key is `HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters`.
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More information can be found at [KB138365](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138365).
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The really evil can fly to [Google Cache](http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:kHQ_0PQXJDQJ:tachyon.zapto.org/binaries/antiwpa/LanServerNoConnLimit/patched.txt+srvsvc.dll+%226a+0a%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3)
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and get a disassembled part of the `srvsvc.dll` with the needed changes to disable the limit. (Only works for XP-SP2!)
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The last resort is to upgrade to *Windows Server*. Another thought might be to connect to the shares from a Linux box
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and let the clients connect to this Linux machine.
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