Error 84: There Are Too Many Network Redirections...

• Microsoft Workgroup Add-On for MS-DOS, version 3.11
• Microsoft Windows for Workgroups version 3.11

SYMPTOMS

When you start the real-mode network with the basic redirector by running the NET USE, NET START BASIC, or NET START WORKSTATION command, you receive one of the following error messages:

• Error 84: There are too many network redirections.

  -or-

• Cannot reconnect <x>: to \\<server>\<share> (Error 84)

  where <x> is the network drive letter.

CAUSE

This problem occurs because the real-mode basic redirector that is packaged with Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and Workgroup Add-On for MS-DOS is limited to a maximum of ten connections (sessions) to network resources (printers and drive connections).

The above errors can occur if you make more than ten connections in Workgroup Add-On for MS-DOS or Windows for Workgroups and you then quit Windows or Workgroup Add-On for MS-DOS and start the real-mode redirector with the NET START BASIC command.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, load the full redirector with the NET START FULL command.

NOTE: Increasing the value of the SESSIONS= line in the PROTOCOL.INI file has no effect on the number of sessions that can be established with the basic redirector. The SESSIONS= entry is valid for the full redirector only.