opening folders from LAN-limit5?

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Folders on W2000P, 7 folders deep. Accessing from NT4 on
LAN. Can access all 7 deep on W2000P machine but can
access only down 5 from LAN. Gives error network name
cannot be found. All permissions set to max, all
permissions propagate down, no restrictions. Cannot find
any setting for max allowed folders to be open by LAN.
Created new folders 1 into 2 into 3 .... 7. same problem.
Problem does not exist on NT4 to NT4, no limit on folders.
 
Client workstations have a hard coded limit of 10 concurrent connections.
 
I'm not sure what that means regarding opening folders in
W2000P. I can open 7 folders on any NT4 from LAN but not
in W2000P.
 
Your question is somewhat confusing I am not sure if you are talking about a
network share that has a deep directory structure or simultaneous
connections.

If it is simultaneous connections then it is 10

if you are talking about a deep directory structure , I stopped testing 10
at directories deep. I think what you are running into is not the number of
folders but the number of characters in the path - That may also include the
pc name and share name if you are doing it via UNC
\\mypcname\mysharename\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4............
I believe the path limit is 260 characters
 
Network share that has deep directory structure
path is
F:images_web partition name
folder names = 1
2
3
4
reading from LAN stops here 5
6
7
 
well I don't know what to tell you, unless I am misinterpreting what you are
doing. I tried it on 2 separate machines, both windows 2000 pro. one was
NTFS and the other was FAT32 neither stopped at 5 or 7.

I created ten directories deep and I was able to browse all the way to
\\pc1\pctest1\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9\10 from a remote pc and was able to create
a text file in the 10th level. I also tried it as mapped drive
z:\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9\10 and it also worked with any issues. I was also able
to see the 10th subfolder at the command prompt. The only limit I have ever
run into us the 260 character path length.

I can not help but think something is a miss here, in the 12 years I have
been networking I have not run into any such limitations even in the dos
days. could there be something you are leaving out maybe - HTTP/web, FTP,
Netware, some third party networking protocol.



just for the hell of it I created a batch file


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c:
cd pctest1

:i
md 1
cd 1
goto i
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to quickly create 259 subdirectories

It took some time and a hell of a lot of clicking but I was able to browse
all the way down from another pc via a mapped drive and UNC.
 
Very basic, take a drive (partition), NTFS, create 10
folders down, 2 under 1, 3 under 2, 10 under 9, etc., set
all permissions to full, allow propagation down, the drive
is shared with no restrictions. You can access all 10
from the same machine (W2000P). Go to another machine on
the LAN (we have several on NT4), access the drive, access
the folders and it works fine thru folder 4 but you cannot
open folder 5,"the network name cannot be found". By
setting a folder share on folder 4 name ="4" then it shows
up like a drive in the LAN listing (F-Web, 4)and is
accessable and on down to 9 but cannot open 9, same
problem.
 
followed your instructions

(which BTW was almost exactly what I did in my second post, with 2
exceptions - I used a NT 4.0 wrk machine to browse to the win2kp machine
instead of win2kp --> win2kp, and you did not specify to create a share so I
just used the administrative share C$)

I stopped testing at 25 directories deep.

and yes I was setting at a NT 4.0 machine and open windows explorer and
browsed to the win2kp machine \\pc1\c$ and kept going down to 25 deep. In
my other post I got to about 250 deep using both UNC and Mapped drive.


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don't know why you machines will not go past 5, but it is not an operating
system limit. 5 is rather limited so is 7, I spent 2 hours searching Google
on this issue and found nothing except issues on the 260 character path
limitation.
 
You certainly tried. We have a 5 folder limit on the
W2000P when accessed from NT4 by LAN but we don't know why.
No limit on NT4 wrk--> NT4 wrk or W2000P --> W2000P. We
tried C$ and new share. We did install a symantec personal
firewall but turned off all local access protection. If
you find something, (e-mail address removed), thanks
for trying.
 
Update: I have multiple removeable drives for C backup. I
tried one made before installing symantec firewall, same
problem. eliminates symantec. If I add share to folder (2)
and propagate full to children, I can go to (7) but not
(8). I have tried every combination of sharing and
propagation, still 5 levels from LAN.
 
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