[philm]

At work we have all of our work saved centrally on a server which is running Panther (normal client version, not Server). This works great, but when maybe 8-9 people are logged into this server, the next person cannot log in and gets the message 'Maximum number of users exceeded'.

There is the occasional mention of this on the web, but it seems to be poorly documented that there is a formal limit for connections into a Panther machine vai AFP. Can anyone confirm this.

One obvious workaround is to get OS X Server. I actually used to run 10.1 Server on this machine, but I was more comfortable using the regular client version which does all we want it to do.

One workaround would be to automatically log out people who has not accessed the server for, say, 30 minutes. I have not found software which will do this. Any ideas?

[mitchell_pgh]

I believe there is a 10 user limit... and I think the person logged in to the system would count as one person... so you should only be able to have 9 additional AFP log ins.

[John Strung]

Personal File Sharing Restrictions

* No more than 10 users at one time can be connected.
* No more than 10 volumes can be shared.
* No more than 10 folders can be shared.

[philm]

Originally posted by John Strung:
Personal File Sharing Restrictions

* No more than 10 users at one time can be connected.
* No more than 10 volumes can be shared.
* No more than 10 folders can be shared.

That's pretty definitive! Any thoughts on how I could get the shared drive to automatically unmount after a specified period of non-use. You can logout from your local machine after a set period using a preference pane in System Preferences, but I have failed to find a solution to doing this with mounted network drives. Applescript?