Re: number of drive mapping limits in Win XP Pro

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On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:21:37 -0500, CardinalSound
<CardinalSound.1s11cq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>I understand there is a limit of 10 user connections when using Windows
>XP Pro networking, but is there a limit to the number of drive
>mappings? More specifically, do multiple drive mappings to a Win XP Pro
>machine from a single user count against the total number of allowed
>users, or does it only count as the one user?
>
>Our office system will have up to 8 users connecting to a single Win Xp
>Pro server, but some machines may have a single drive mapping, while
>others may have as many as 4, depending on what data the user needs to
>access. Under this scenario, I anticipate as many as 15 total drive
>mappings across the 8 users. Do I need to limit the total mappings to
>10, or am I OK just keeping the number of users at 10 or below?
>
>Thanks in advance for any guidance you can offer.

One computer, with multiple sessions = 1 connection. A session could be a
mapped drive, or any other transport or resource sharing protocol.
<http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314882>

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