I was sent a link about this the other day and I have to say it seems pretty exciting. Although the web is an exciting place to develop new applications, developers have been doing relatively the same for a couple years - most user actions in the browser trigger an HTTP request back to a web server. The server does some processing — retrieving data talking to various systems and then returns an HTML page to the client. This doesn’t always work or make for a very clean user experience.
Ajax really isn’t a new technology, it is several technologies combining together to make a more powerful user experience. I could go on and on about his, but it would make more sense from the founder of Adaptive Path
I guess I could type it all out but I’m really too tired. I had to be back in Halifax by Monday due to some work issues, but this weekend is the end of winter break for university students in Canada. So, if I don’t fly by Thursday night, I have to let some airline employee have his/her way with me….. or pay $400 bucks for a one way ticket. I decided to fly the midnight flight…. lands at 1:30 AM. Needless to say I am having coffee administered intravenously today.
Well normally I would say there can never be enough but in this case yes there are tooo many connections. This morning I was logging into one of the servers I support and I got this message.
“The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections”
I have gotten this before and I’ve always meant to document what I did to solve the issue… so here it is…..
I know I can set an inactivity timeout on these servers… But I sometimes forget to. So what I have found is this neat DOS based utility to log onto the box and disconnect the connections.
Download this:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psexec.shtml
I usually put the .exe file on my d drive root (d:\psexec.exe)
Open a dos window go to where you saved the .exe and type this”
psexec \\x.x.x.x -u user -p password cmd
You will then have a remote command prompt.
-run: qwinsta and you will see the active TS connections.
-To kill one use: logoff [id# of session to quit] /v
e.g. logoff 2 /v
Those two above steps thanks to: http://dev.remotenetworktechnology.com/cmd/tscmd.htm
You will then get a message stating “Logging off session ID #)
You should be able to login via TS again.
I hope this info helps a few people out. God knows it has helped me several times.
My life/work situation has evolved so I work for a place in Halifax, but I actually live in Toronto (with frequent trips to Halifax for meetings). I’m a web developer so it really isn’t much of an issue. The one issue that has arisen is my own personal identity.
What am I now? Am I Torontonian or am I a Haligonian? I recently heard a term for someone who splits their time between New York and London, they are a a Nylon.
I thought this was rather clever so I have been spending way to much time coming up with a term for me. I was thinking Halitonian, but then a friend told me I had better be careful or I’ll get halitosis. The one bright side was they thought Halitonian is better than “Tofax”; which sounds like medicine for athlete’s foot.