How many connections can XP pro allow?

[AzNKiD]

okay, i work for a cybercafe, and we got 40 computers here on LAN with T1 to outside. war craft3 requires CD to run and cant crack it for battle.net, so we used deamon tools to make a image and host it on one computer running winxp pro. they work fine till this place gets almost full and then it stop mounting the images and gives error about too many connections to the remote computer and no more allowed. all the machines are on win xp, and running the lastest the deamon. we been doing this for almost month and didnt get this problem till now. weird? is there really a limit on connections to a XP pro box on a lan? if there is, are there any ways to increase the connections to allow more? if not, is there a way to disc a comp from the mounting to allow others because the game only needs the CD to start, and then u can take cd away. so i was wondering if i can get windows to dis-mount them if i wish.

 

[AzNKiD]

Ok, i think xp pro only allows 10 connections, i did a netstat -a and here is what i think the comps are

TCP displaywks:netbios-ssn 10.41.2.5:1041 ESTABLISHED
TCP displaywks:netbios-ssn 10.41.2.13:1164 ESTABLISHED
TCP displaywks:netbios-ssn 10.41.2.15:1040 ESTABLISHED
TCP displaywks:netbios-ssn 10.41.2.16:1034 ESTABLISHED
TCP displaywks:netbios-ssn 10.41.2.18:1038 ESTABLISHED
TCP displaywks:netbios-ssn 10.41.2.20:1029 ESTABLISHED
TCP displaywks:netbios-ssn 10.41.2.21:1035 ESTABLISHED
TCP displaywks:netbios-ssn 10.41.2.22:1031 ESTABLISHED
TCP displaywks:netbios-ssn 10.41.2.25:1030 ESTABLISHED
TCP displaywks:netbios-ssn 10.41.2.29:1064 ESTABLISHED


so now how do i kill these connections and free up slots for other computers? i hope this is possiable

 

[MrCoyote]

You have to edit the registry to use more than 10 connections in XP.
To increase Max Simultaneous connections edit the following key. It's in Hex, so "a" = 10 connections.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
On the Edit menu, click Add DWORD Value , and then add the following registry values:
"MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=Dword:0000000a
"MaxConnectionsPerServer"=Dword:0000000a

 

[n0cmonkey]

Technically I think you need a server version for more connections (technically meaning legally and morally(iffy depending on how good of morals you have )).

Does the WC3 license allow you to do this? I really dont know, but it sounds fishy...

 

[Tiger]

Technically I think you need a server version for more connections

Yep. Unfortunately MS has delayed .NET (XP Server) yet again. Maybe we need to start a Hack and Crack forum.

 

[Fuzznuts]

IIS will ony allow ten as will the ftp service i think it takes mmore than a reg hack to get around that one too

 

[AzNKiD]

thanks coyoto for the tip, i am trying that now. here is what i set

MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server=Dword:00000028
MaxConnectionsPerServer=Dword:00000028

which is 40 in dec.
we see how it goes later today and tomorrow

as for it being fishy, yea kinda, but we did brought 50 copies of games. all of our software is legit incase u wanna know. it sure cost alot to buy all these games, and windows licnese. if we didnt we wouldnt be able to log into battle.net you know, it requires valid key. its just a pain that we cant crack it for no cd because bnet does checksum, and we cant leave all the cd out on comp. thanks, hope it works.

 

[BlitzRommel]

Originally posted by: Fuzznuts
IIS will ony allow ten as will the ftp service i think it takes mmore than a reg hack to get around that one too

It's hard-coded if I remember correctly.

 

[AzNKiD]

thanks for your help, but others are right, the reg hack does not work.

after doing the reg hack, i went to each comps to load, and it started to fail once i reach pass 10 comps. we decided to just copy the image over to all the comp and mount it locally. would have been better if it was hosted so save time for future game and space.

thanks though.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: BlitzRommel

Originally posted by: Fuzznuts
IIS will ony allow ten as will the ftp service i think it takes mmore than a reg hack to get around that one too

It's hard-coded if I remember correctly.

There is a program that takes a Windows 2000 Pro installation and makes it think that it's a server (but it doesn't add all the extra utilities and services that go with a Server OS). This program therefore allows a Windows 2000 Pro system to accept more than 10 connections. It does not work very well on Windows XP Pro, however.

Needless to say, since it is kind of not-quite-legal, I can not tell you where to find it here. But if you search, I'm sure you could track it down.