[Laurence]

I recently turned on file sharing on a machine at work to be used as a central storage location for users files. After a certain number of users mount the share it refuses connections from any more users. I have file sharing and windows sharing both turned on. The Windows sharing doesn't seem to have the same issue, although not as many people are connecting from Windows and they probably don't keep the share mounted for as long.

Does anyone know what the limit is, and more importantly, is there a way to remove this limit.

BTW, It's using 10.2.3.

[piracy]

How many "certain number of users" are we talking here?

[Laurence]

I don't know exactly, is there a terminal command I could type to list all users currently connected? It can't be more than about 10-15 users at any given time.

[piracy]

You may want to pick up two utilities, both from http://www.hornware.com/

SharePoints
http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/

An application/pref pane that lets you change several aspects of file sharing on Mac OS X non-Server.

AFS Monitor
http://www.hornware.com/afsmonitor.html

Lets you see the current users connected.

This might help you troubleshoot your problem a little more.

[piracy]

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[Laurence]

Ok, did some testing with SharePoints and AFS Monitor, and it looks like 12 is the limit.

So... Does anyone know why this is and how to modify it? I looked in netinfomanager under /config/AppleFileServer and found lots of settings, but none of them sounded like a max user value.

Any ideas?

[:XI:]

i thought that OS X client had a limit of 10 connected users. that is, after all, why they sell OS X Server.

[beverson]

Originally posted by :XI::
i thought that OS X client had a limit of 10 connected users. that is, after all, why they sell OS X Server.

The last time I ran into this it was with 10.1. I got around it by using admin accounts. With everyone logging in using the same admin account, the system seemed to overlook the 10 user limit. This is not ideal for several reasons, but this was a temporary situation at a conference and I had to get it working in a matter of hours, so I did the best I could.

I too am trying to find a more permanent solution to this issue now. I haven't tried yet (will later today hopefully), but I suspect that using admin accounts for at least some of the users will help. I don't know if my previous situation worked only because everyone was using the same admin login though, or if multiple admin logins will work and in conjunction with some regular user logins. I don't want to give everyone admin access, but I could probably do a few of those to get us all on at once (we have 12 computers).

But you're right, there's gotta be a way to hack this, isn't there? Sure, Apple needs to sell X Server, and if needed print, mail, Web, etc. serving (and had the money), we'd just buy it. But for only file sharing and 12 users, and the copy of X that came on our G4 (it's booted into 9 right now -- shudder), I'd rather try and get this to work.