What constitutes a WIN2k file share? I will be running a Visual foxpro server on a Win 2k machine (preferably Professional) and am curious how detrimental the 10 user limit will be on my 13 users to it. This machine will only serve out files for the database and nothing else. Is a share considered active or concurrent for the duration of someone being logged into trhis database? When exactly does "a share" in Win 2k begin and end?

I run into problems with this all the time- I have a 25 user version for about 30 people. It looks like win2k is counting "sessions" look under computer managment, shared folders, sessions. There are never more than 25 users with open files, but what I get is users taking up a session with no open files. Sometimes they sit there for hours with no open files. I'm not sure how win2k decides to release the license.

Win2k is 10 CONCURRENT sessions. If your users are only connecting occasionally you'll not have a problem. If they all come in in the morning and want to connect at once, you will. You can adjust the time before disconnecting a session through group policy, this will help with your connection management throughout the day.

So is there anyway of knowing how and when session is ended? I am fairly comfortably with 10 users for my scenario, since 3-5 are only occasional users. Also what actually happens when the limit is reached, (I have not yet experienced this in this version of windows.) I assume a warning message of some kind and then banning access to the share. Any help would be appreciated.

When the limit is reached Win2k lets you know by a message saying that no more connections can be made to the server. AS to looking at sessions, right click "My Computer", select manage then expand shared folders then expand sessions.