Keep losing access to network

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avimia

Hi,

Hope some of you experts can help me with this one. I have a simple network
set up of 8 machines. I am using Machine #1 as a basic "file server". I have
the Workgroup all set up and everything is working fine. But.... for some
reason, every now and then the network will not let my users in when they try
to access it. It's like a configuration or a permission or something just
disppears or dies. And, today, for some reason, I can't even access the
Network from my main machine (Machine #1). Each of my users are getting the
error message, Unable to access the network.. you might not have
permissions... etc". This just seems so rediculous to me as it was working
just fine a day ago. We had done nothing to any of the systems to change
anything. I even went in and tried to "repair" the network connection, but it
didn't help. It's all out there, it just won't let some of my machines
connect which used to.

So, I am hoping one of you experts has the quick solution to this.

Thanks!
avi
 
Oh yeah.. wanted to add one more thing. I just tried to access the network on
2 of the machines, and the message I get from them is The Network path is not
found.

I still don't understand this as I have one machine that is able to find
every other system and file needed.

I appreciate help on this. I'm at my wits end.
avi
 
avimia said:
Hi,

Hope some of you experts can help me with this one. I have a simple network
set up of 8 machines. I am using Machine #1 as a basic "file server". I have
the Workgroup all set up and everything is working fine. But.... for some
reason, every now and then the network will not let my users in when they try
to access it. It's like a configuration or a permission or something just
disppears or dies. And, today, for some reason, I can't even access the
Network from my main machine (Machine #1). Each of my users are getting the
error message, Unable to access the network.. you might not have
permissions... etc". This just seems so rediculous to me as it was working
just fine a day ago. We had done nothing to any of the systems to change
anything. I even went in and tried to "repair" the network connection, but it
didn't help. It's all out there, it just won't let some of my machines
connect which used to.

So, I am hoping one of you experts has the quick solution to this.

Thanks!
avi
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You really have too many computers networked to use Windows XP as a
"file server." Even if you have XP Pro on the machine on which the
files are stored, that only permits 10 simultaneous inbound connections.
And note that "connections" is not the same as "computers." One of
your "client" computer may well have more than one "connection" open to
the "server" at any given time.

That being said, the usual error message you would get from exceeding
the connection limit would be something like: "No more connections can
be made to this remote computer at this time because there are already
as many connections as the computer can accept." If you're getting a
different error message, perhaps the most efficient way to approach your
issue(s) is a systematic use of Hans-Georg Michna's network troubleshooter:
http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm


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