wow, I didnt realize that the service pack limits the connection attempts to 10.
This comes all the way from the days of NT4 when MS put the restriction on NT4 workstation. Later, it was discovered that a simple registry change could fix that pesky lil connection limit.

Truthfully, I haven't looked at the connection limit since then. There could be a reg hack around to do the same in XP only I don't care enough to look.

--TH13

PS

Is this the only host with this behavior?