Error Msg: No More Connections Can Be Made At This Time

• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.51, 4.0
• Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.51, 4.0
• Microsoft Windows 95
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

SYMPTOMS

Users on computers running Windows NT report the following error:

No more connections can be made at this remote computer at this time
because there are already as many connections as the computer can
accept.

This request is not accepted by the network. Try again later.

CAUSE

The user may be attempting to connect to a share that is configured to allows a specific number of connections, and that number of connections has been reached. Check the properties on the share on the server.

RESOLUTION

If the specified number of connections has been reached, increase the user limit or set the value to "maximum allowed."

MORE INFORMATION

There are several other parameters that you can check when troubleshooting a problem with limited connections to the computer.

• Verify that the computer is running a retail version of Windows NT. To verify this, check the Licensing tool in Control Panel and make sure that the following message does not appear:
  

  Not available in NFR (Not for Resale)/MSDN Edition of Windows NT
  Server.




• The server may be configured with Per Server licensing and the number of licenses may be exhausted. A quick check to see if this is the problem would be turn off the License Logging Service on the computer.



• Check to see if the server was configured by upgrading a computer running Windows NT Workstation to Windows NT Server. If it was, the following registry parameter may need to be increased from a hex value of 0xa (10) to 0xFFFFFFFF:
  
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer
  \Parameters\Users
  
  NOTE: The above registry key is one path; it has been wrapped for readability.
  
  For additional information on changing this value, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  

  ARTICLE-ID: Q122925
  TITLE : Upgrading From Workstation to Server Limited to 10 Connections

ARTICLE-ID: Q122920
TITILE: Inbound Connections Limit in Windows NT Workstation 3.5x & 4.0

ARTICLE-ID: Q149522
TITLE: System Error 71 and License Manager

ARTICLE-ID: Q148967
TITLE: Err Msg: "This Request Not Accepted by Network" on WFWG Client

ARTICLE-ID: Q130631
TITLE: Client License Assignment in Per Server Mode

ARTICLE-ID: Q156431
TITLE: XADM: Error 71 When Using NT Server from MSDN Select CD

Additional query words: fail evaluation developers network

Keywords : ntdomain NTSrvWkst
Version : WINDOWS:2000,95; winnt:3.51,4.0
Platform : WINDOWS winnt
Issue type : kbprb