[Discussion] Printing from a Windows computer

[Chuck McKinnis]

Stratton McAllister wrote:
> Our home network is built around two computers that run under eCommStation
> 1.2.  The two printers are connected to one of the two eCS computers and
> are used from the other computers through PEER.
> 
> One of the other computers in the house, a Windows 2000 ThinkPad (T30), is
> occasionally connected into the network to transfer files and use the
> printers.  I even have one Windows application on the ThinkPad that is
> actually physically installed on a disk on one of the eCS computers, the
> one that doesn't have the printers.
> 
> I haven't been using the ThinkPad much recently, but I just connected it
> into the network to use that multi-computer program.  It runs fine.
> 
> However, I get into trouble when I try to print from the ThinkPad.  In
> fact, whenever I try to access anything on that eCS machine, I get the
> Windows message
> 
>    "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."
> 
> Can anyone tell me what this can mean ?  I assume that the "computer" at
> the end of the message is the "remote computer", the one with the attached
> printers.  It sounds like there is something wrong with how that computer
> is set up.  As far as I know, I haven't made any configuration changes to
> either of the eCS computers since I last used the printers from the
> ThinkPad -- which must have been several months ago.
> 
> Any ideas what I should be looking for ?  If I should be asking this
> question somewhere else, can someone suggest where ?  I don't follow any
> Windows lists, so I have no idea where to go if this is a Windows problem.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Stratton

I would open the "Sharing and Connecting" folder on the serving machine 
and go to the "Configuration" tab.  Make sure that "Concurrent users" 
and "Shareable Resources" are large enough.  The cost of making them 
bigger on today's machines is probably not a problem.

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Chuck McKinnis
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