Thursday, August 14, 2008

Multiple connections to server or shared resource error

Sometimes when you try to access any shared resource you obtain an error similar to:

\\10.x.x.x\Shared is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource...

Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed...


Multiple connections to a server

How to fix this error?

Open the command line from run program using cmd

Run following command: net use * /delete, it will deleted all open shared connections

Try newly to access your shared resource

How to delete an specific shared resource

Open the command line from run program using cmd

List all reousrces using following command: net use

delete an specific shared resource with following command: net use \\10.x.x.x\shared /delete

Try newly to access your shared resource