Microsoft KB Archive/78980

= Increasing the Maximum Number of Connections Under MS-DOS =

Article ID: 78980

Article Last Modified on 9/30/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft LAN Manager 2.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft LAN Manager 2.1 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q78980



SUMMARY
Some LAN Manager version 2.0 users have increased the number of shares they can connect to by raising the value of &quot;numresources&quot; in the [workstation] section of LANMAN.INI. LAN Manager 2.1 does not have this setting, and you must add the parameter back to the [workstation] section of LANMAN.INI.

The default values are SESSIONS = 6, NCBS = 12. If you change either of these values, you must preserve the 1:2 ratio of SESSIONS:NCBS.

In systems using NetBEUI protocol, the recommended method for increasing the number of shares to connect to is to increase the values of SESSIONS and NCBS in the [NETBEUI_XIF] section of PROTOCOL.INI instead.

If you change SESSIONS and NCBS, you must also set the LANMAN.INI parameters NUMRESOURCES and NUMSERVERS to the same value as SESSIONS. For a LAN Manager 2.1 MS-DOS workstation, you must add these parameters to LANMAN.INI.

