Limit on connections?

Question

     From a class that requires transactions, I invoke a routine in a class that supports transactions. That second routine, in turn, opens up a database connection, invokes a stored procedure (which, by the way, is completely empty -- it just has a "return" statement), then closes the database connection.
     I call this second routine eight times in a row, without any problems. But when I invoke it for the ninth time, I get the following error when trying to open the connection:
     "Unable to enlist in a distributed transaction"
     Is there a limit on the number of times a database can be accessed within a transaction? Is there a way to raise, or eliminate, this limit?

Answer 1

You're not exceeding the number of network connections for a workstation, which is 10 computers, so I don't believe you've hit any limits. I suspect you're running into inherent problems with Mac OS X's implementation of SMB, which I sometimes find flaky.
See what happens when you take the following code and put it into the Applescript Script Editor found inside the Applications folder:
mount volume "smb://servername/sharename" as user name userName with password password
Add a new line of code for each share you're trying to access. Click the Run button to execute the script. If this works then you can save the script as a double-clickable application.
Hope this helps! bill
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