Re: XP Home 5 user limit on shared network resource

In <hfjrn152tgfd95rbqh8ageerjq61mhnd47@xxxxxxx>, Saul <saul@xxxxxxx> writes:
>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.
>>>
>snipped
>
>>
>>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
>

I have not used these but I suggest it would need to run Samba or some other flavour of Netbios in order to be seen by Windows Explorer.

If it runs Unix NFS then your windows boxes will need a proprietary (paid for) NFS client.

Either way you will avoid the Microsoft limit of 10 shares.


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