Re: users limitation in Win XP Home

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From: Bob Willard (BobwBSGS_at_TrashThis.comcast.net)
Date: 05/18/04 

Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 07:42:44 -0400

Jonathan wrote:

> I think the two routers you've specified count as the other two
>
> "hiwatt" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:e1e701c43c1d$ac991c10$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>
>>I have a running five machines (all Win XP Home) and one
>>of them acts as a server for a particular program. There
>>are two routers involved and all machines can access the
>>Internet. It seems only three machines at a time can
>>access the database on the 'server'. The fourth machine
>>get an error saying that the max number of connections
>>have been used (or some such message). I can't get
>>anything but 'simple sharing' going...no advanced. Would
>>a Win XP Pro upgrade on the server allow more users? Can
>>I configure XP Home to allow more users at a time?
>>I know one of you brainiacs knows this one.
>>Thanks

Uh, no; routers do not normally create connections to PCs.
For example, my home LAN currently has 5 connections from 5 PCs
to one of my XP HE PCs, and all use the router for web access
(and N-1 of them use DHCP). All 5 connections concurrently work
(for R/W access), and when I attempt to create a 6th, it is rejected.

Also, most of the 5 connections support access to both a shared
folder and a shared printer on that target XP HE PC -- demonstrating
that the connection limit is based on PCs, not on resources. 

-- 
Cheers, Bob

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