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Author
10 Oct 2006 4:19 PM
Mesacruiser
Is ther a limit on the number of computers that can be on a Smalll Office
network sharing files and printers?
I'm running Windows XP Pro& get error messages when I try to connect the
11th machine.

Author
10 Oct 2006 4:31 PM
Malke
Mesacruiser wrote:

> Is ther a limit on the number of computers that can be on a Smalll
> Office network sharing files and printers?
> I'm running Windows XP Pro& get error messages when I try to connect
> the 11th machine.

Not on the network, but if you are using XP Pro as a pseudo-server you
are probably running into the inbound concurrent limitations problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314882 - Inbound connections limit in
XP

concurrent connections:

5 for XP Home
10 for XP Pro/Tablet/MCE
49 for SBS 2000
74 for SBS 2003
Unlimited for full Server O/Ses

If this is applicable to you, either upgrade the pseudo-server to an MS
server operating system or, if you don't need to run Windows programs
on the server and are just using it as a file server or the like,
replace with Linux.

Malke
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Author
10 Oct 2006 7:15 PM
Mesacruiser
Thanks for the answer. Can I just install SBS 2003 over the XP Pro.

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"Mesacruiser" wrote:

> Is ther a limit on the number of computers that can be on a Smalll Office
> network sharing files and printers?
> I'm running Windows XP Pro& get error messages when I try to connect the
> 11th machine.
Author
10 Oct 2006 7:16 PM
Mesacruiser
Thanks for the help. Can I just install SBS 2003 over the XP Pro.

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"Mesacruiser" wrote:

> Is ther a limit on the number of computers that can be on a Smalll Office
> network sharing files and printers?
> I'm running Windows XP Pro& get error messages when I try to connect the
> 11th machine.
Author
10 Oct 2006 9:28 PM
Malke
Mesacruiser wrote:

> Thanks for the help. Can I just install SBS 2003 over the XP Pro.
>
> "Mesacruiser" wrote:
>
>> Is ther a limit on the number of computers that can be on a Smalll
>> Office network sharing files and printers?
>> I'm running Windows XP Pro& get error messages when I try to connect
>> the 11th machine.

No, you will need to do a clean install.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Author
10 Oct 2006 11:59 PM
Mesacruiser
Thanks again.

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"Malke" wrote:

> Mesacruiser wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the help. Can I just install SBS 2003 over the XP Pro.
> >
> > "Mesacruiser" wrote:
> >
> >> Is ther a limit on the number of computers that can be on a Smalll
> >> Office network sharing files and printers?
> >> I'm running Windows XP Pro& get error messages when I try to connect
> >> the 11th machine.
>
> No, you will need to do a clean install.
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>