using VB to drop connections to XP

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Seems XP allows for a maximum of 10 users to connect to a PC's
resources. This is presenting a problem for us as more than 10 people
now want drives mapped to a particular PC. Is there a way using VB that
I could identify an inactive connection and clear it? Would it just pop
back on--I think the connecting PCs (also XP) refresh their connections
every so often. Can that refresh be disabled (I know that last one
isn't a VB question).
 
Seems XP allows for a maximum of 10 users to connect to a PC's
resources. This is presenting a problem for us as more than 10 people
now want drives mapped to a particular PC. Is there a way using VB that
I could identify an inactive connection and clear it? Would it just pop
back on--I think the connecting PCs (also XP) refresh their connections
every so often. Can that refresh be disabled (I know that last one
isn't a VB question).
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I thought the remote connection limitation with XP was with XP Home
and not XP Pro. At any rate, I doubt if Microsoft intended any flavor
of XP would be used as a server.
 
XP home is 5 XP pro is 10 so I found out. Probably not but this is the
real world an these things happen. It's a pc with a scanner. Lots of
departments and people use it and the scans are stored on it because the
software works that way. The people who want these scanned documents
then map drives to their directories on that pc so they can see them.

Actually a couple hours ago another It guy here "solved" the problem by
making icons on these users pcs that run the commandline command (for
example):
start \\scanpc\actshared\invoices

This launches the browser and shows that dir. That's all they wanted to
do. Nice thing is that unlike a drive mapping when the browser window
is closed the connection drops.
 
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