Maximum numbers of PC

20 Dec 2005 7:39 AM

mork

I understand that XP Home can only support up to 5 PC, but does that mean if
i have XP Pro for 1 of the PC that will be used as the host and then i have
no more 5 PC restrictions? mean i can have 7 or 8 other PC using XP Home to
share file from the XP Pro PC acted as the host. Thank you.

20 Dec 2005 8:12 AM

Ian

XP Pro will support up to ten file-sharing connections. So, yes provided all
of the shares are on the Pro machine.

20 Dec 2005 8:16 AM

mork

Understood'ed tkx.

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"Ian" wrote:

> XP Pro will support up to ten file-sharing connections. So, yes provided all
> of the shares are on the Pro machine.

20 Dec 2005 8:13 AM

Steve Winograd [MVP]

In article <97C1B3CF-47E7-48CE-81E1-021BAB07D***@microsoft.com>,

"mork" <m***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I understand that XP Home can only support up to 5 PC, but does that mean if
>i have XP Pro for 1 of the PC that will be used as the host and then i have
>no more 5 PC restrictions? mean i can have 7 or 8 other PC using XP Home to
>share file from the XP Pro PC acted as the host. Thank you.

Yes. An XP Pro computer can have active file sharing connections with
up to 10 computers at the same time:

Inbound Connections Limit in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314882

A computer that isn't actively connected to a shared file doesn't
count against the limit.

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