Re: XP Home 5 user limit on shared network resource
- From: Ron Martell <ron.martell@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:14:50 -0800
"JR" <JR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I am trying to add a 6th PC to my 5 computer peer-to-peer office network all
>running XP Home. We use two programs that require constant access to a shared
>folder mapped with network drives to the main "server." I found that with XP
>Home, only 5 computers can access the same network resource (in my case a
>shared folder) at the same time. The Microsoft support documentation confirms
>this limitation and says XP Pro can support 10 such concurrent users.
>
>I figure that installing XP Pro on the main computer will solve this problem
>and give up to 10 machines access to the same folder.
>
>Am I right? Also, has anyone had problems with installing Pro on top of Home
>SP2 as opposed to a clean install? (I know it's usually better to start
>clean, but I'm looking at 4 or 5 hours to reinstall and configure everything).
>
>Thanks for any expert help. JR
If you upgrade the machine that hosts the shared folder to XP Pro then
you will be able to have up to 10 machines accessing that folder. The
machines doing the access can be running XP Home or pretty much any
other version of Windows (2000, Me, 98SE, 98) and it should all work.
Upgrades from XP Home to XP Pro are pretty much the simplest of any of
the possible Windows version upgrades as so many of the files are
identical between the two versions. All that is really being done is
to add some additional utilities and functionality. That being said,
Murphy's Law still applies and so you do need to be prepared to do a
clean install just in case things do go "bloooeey".
Good luck
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
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