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# Network Share Access Denied After Limit Met, Then a Disconnect

Article ID: 116043

Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006

APPLIES TO

- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5

This article was previously published under Q116043

## SYMPTOMS

When two computers access a shared file or application on a network share where the limit of connections is set to two, a third computer is still unable to access the shared file or application even after one of the other two computers have closed the file or quit the application.

## CAUSE

By design, a dormant network connection remains alive for 10 minutes after a computer quits a shared file or application on a network share.
In the case above, the computer that closed the shared file or quit the shared application still has a dormant network connection and because the network share is limited to two, the third computer is still unable to access the shared file or application.
NOTE: Microsoft Windows for Workgroups version 3.11 behaves the same way.

## WORKAROUND

To delete a dormant network connection:

- From the computer with the dormant connection, use the following command to delete the connection:

  NET USE \\server\share /d

  -or-
- From the server, an administrator can use the following command to delete the dormant connection:

  net sess \\computername /d

Additional query words: wfw wfwg prodnt

Keywords: kbnetwork KB116043