Increasing the Maximum Number of Connections Under MS-DOS

• Microsoft LAN Manager, versions 2.0, 2.1

SUMMARY

Some LAN Manager version 2.0 users have increased the number of shares they can connect to by raising the value of "numresources" in the [workstation] section of LANMAN.INI. LAN Manager 2.1 does not have this setting, and you must add the parameter back to the [workstation] section of LANMAN.INI.

The default values are SESSIONS = 6, NCBS = 12. If you change either of these values, you must preserve the 1:2 ratio of SESSIONS:NCBS.

In systems using NetBEUI protocol, the recommended method for increasing the number of shares to connect to is to increase the values of SESSIONS and NCBS in the [NETBEUI_XIF] section of PROTOCOL.INI instead.

If you change SESSIONS and NCBS, you must also set the LANMAN.INI parameters NUMRESOURCES and NUMSERVERS to the same value as SESSIONS. For a LAN Manager 2.1 MS-DOS workstation, you must add these parameters to LANMAN.INI.

REFERENCES

Microsoft LAN Manager "Network Device Driver Guide," chapter 2.
Microsoft LAN Manager "Administrator's Reference," Appendix B.

Additional query words: 2.00 2.0 2.10 2.1 2.10a 2.1a 2.20 2.2 netbeui sessions

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