Herwig Bauernfeind wrote:
 
> I am running a LAN with the "server" running OS/2 MCP with
Peer to share
> files and printers with up to 6 other machines.
 
> As long as all the the "clients" run either various flavours of OS/2
> (W4, MCP, eCS) or Windows 98 or 2000 (either directly or from within
> VPC) everything works nicely.
 
> As soon as a Win XP client enters the scene within a relatively short
> time, no other box can connect to the "server" because all
resources are
> exhausted (as the error message tells me).
 
> Now my question: Which resources exactly? In theory there should be
> enough users (16), connections (128) etc. available.
 
> In addition I am unable to free those "ressources" without
rebooting the
> server box.
 
> I already tried to find IBMLAN.INI parameters to change, but with no success.
> Especially the autodisconnect parameter look promising, but changing it
> from -1 to 15 made Peer unstartable.
> So I am back where I was before.
 
> It looks like WinXP is eating up something and I don't know what exactly.
> And I am unable to resolve this, neither on the XP nor on the OS/2 side.
 
> I am grateful for any hint,

I ran into this yesterday, though never before. One Linux box had been
up for 57 days. eCS, the preferred master, had been up 5 days. WinXP had
been up many days, maybe as much as a week, but in any event longer than
I'd ever left XP running continuously before. My network printer was the
4th and last peer up.

All were working fine, but XP did a BSOD. On restart, XP announced one
of my network resources failed to connect. Naturally it was the eCS
connections in need at the time of failure. When I opened up explorer,
it listed every share with every machine it had ever made on my network,
except with this eCS box, about 20 connections total. I tried deleting
the eCS auto shares, but that didn't help. I tried recreating the shares
using IP instead of hostname, but that didn't work either.

I then did three things: 1-changed OS2LAN.INI from maxconnections = 48
to maxconnections = 64; 2-rebooted XP; 3-rebooted eCS. On XP restart I
recreated the shares to eCS using IP. It worked then, and continues to
work now.

I'd like to know how to make XP forget connections not available. I'm
guessing that's the root problem.
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Father except through me."                        John 14:6 NIV

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