Re: XP Home 5 user limit on shared network resource
- From: Saul <saul@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:52:52 +0000
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:14:50 -0800, Ron Martell
<ron.martell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>"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.
>>
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>
>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.
>
>Good luck
>
>Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
Excuse me for jumping in here - but you might be able to answer a
question for me..
Is one way round this 10 user (XP Pro) limit to use LAN storage? Can
the version of Windows used control access to a LAN storage device the
way it controls access to shares?
Saul
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