Windows 2000 Pro Error 71

[Ron Sorensen]

I have a client with a 2000 Pro machine as the main machine with 10 windows
98 workstations. All 10 are able to connect with unc or mapped drives to a
database on the 2000 machine. We installed a client server application
(using TCP/IP) on the 2000 machine to access the database and now they are
no longer able to get all workstations connected. We are getting an error
71 when the connection to the server fails. After receiving this error I
ran a "Net View server" command from the workstation and received the
following error (Error 71. The network request was not accepted). I would
expect this error if they had 11 workstations.

All machines have all microsoft critical updates installed.

Does anyone know a way around this connection problem? Will 2000/2003
SERVER with 10 users solve this problem?

Thanks
Ron

 

[Steven L Umbach]

There can be multiple sessions to the server from one computer as if they are
connected to different shares at the same time. You can use " net sessions" or go to
Computer Management/shared folders - sessions to see the current status. If it is due
to having too many connections, then yes Server will fix the problem and you should
go with Windows 2003 Server at this point in time being sure to update the Windows 98
computers to with Directory Services Client. Windows 2003 Server also requires smb
signing by default which can be disabled in it's security policy-security
ptions. --- Steve