The prudent suggestion would be "If you are using a computer as a server,
you should be running a server operating system on it".

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"GT" <GT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:176A7364-E77D-4884-8A9F-1B30B08AEFAB@microsoft.com...
>I have 5 machines all using windows XP home. One of the machines we have
> shared out a folder and the other 4 computers connect to it. Normally all
> 4
> machines can connect to the 5th but sometimes when someone reboots they
> are
> not able to reconnect to the shared folder. We get the error "An erro
> occurred while reconnecting to T:\\. Microsoft Windows Network: 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. This
> connection
> has not been restored." If I reboot the machine that has the shared drive
> then all 4 machines can connect again. Why is the host machine not
> releasing
> prior connections? Thanks for your help