Re: shared printer WinXP Workgroup

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averied wrote:

Hi,

I have a netowrk with 20 computers, some Win XP Pro, and most of them
WinXP Pro.

One of the WinXP Home machines has a shared USB printer, so all users
in the network use it. We are all in the same Workgroup. The problem
is that in the middle of the day, some machines cannot print, because
it gives an error that the machine sharing the printer can't accept
more conections.

Is there some way to reset this connections every 10 minutes por
example or any other solution to this problem?, I read somewhere that
a WinXP can't accept more than 5 connections, but not sure, it's just
a shared printer...




XP Professional is limited to a maximum of 10 simultaneous connections and
XP Home to a maximum of five. If you have a 20-computer network, you are way
beyond the capabilities of a Windows XP workgroup. You should be in a server
(domain) environment, not a workgroup one.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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