Require more than 10 logins - How

[Cap2010]

HI,

I currently have 15 users having different PC and acccess one PC having data in a folder. Only 10 are able to access this folder (data is on single Windows XP PC).

How do I make the other 5 to access this folder.

How to make access a single PC for all 15 to access at a same time
Captain

 

[BitFuzzy]

Purchase an additional client license.

If memory serves XP only comes w/ a 10 client license
meaning it'll allow only 10 connections at a given time

 

[linney]

See if the Registry fix mentioned in the first thread works?

University Networks and XP Home
thread779-606892


Maximum network connections
thread779-866002

 

[bcastner]

1. The connection limit is a license issue spelled out in the EULA for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. You can revert the share server to Windows 9x and avoid a license issue;

2. You can read any link you want, but you will not be able to hack this under Windows XP. It is not a registry setting, but hard-coded at the fundamental DLL level.

 

[bcastner]

Let me modify, clarify, and better spell a link from late June cited by linney under my pen:

. Connections you can accept from other machines: XP Home: 5 connections; XP Pro: 10 connections.

From either XP OS, there is no limit other than the alphabet to the connections you can make. (And there are several ways around the alphabet for devices).

. Connection limits may surprise you, as they are unlikely counted by XP the way you would. Fom a workstation: you can connect to 15 folder shares on the "server", and 3 network printers hosted on the "server" and it all counts as one connection, the way in which it counts.

http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=314882

I have a workgroup settig with 80 clients that does not requre in the logon script connections to every share in the world. Most workstations need a connection to a printer sharing computer (there are several), and a file sharing "server" depending on department. But there are never more than 10 workstations connecting to any share server resource because of departments in this setting.

To exceed 10 connections as counted by the OS

. Use Windows 98SE; or bite the bullet and do a full Win2k/ or Windows 2003 server. (Avoid Windows ME)

There are a lot of departmental file and printer servers still running Windows 98SE as an alternative to the license restrictions of XP or going to a full Server OS implementation. There is no 10 user limit on workgroup connections under Windows 9x.

. There is Linux with SAMBA, and it does work. But this is decidedly non-trivial as a solution if you have no Linux experience. But the Linux with SAMBA solution does work, and is free. As a start, I would purchase the modestly priced Red-Hat or other commercial packages for Linux because the installation and maintenance tools have been simplified for Workgroups and new-to-Linux administrators. An experienced Windows hand should be able to sort a Linux w/SAMBA workgroup solution using an inexpensive package from Red-Hat or others.

. You could use "Virtual" solutions. Using the Microsoft Virtual PC or VMWARE, add a Win9x Virtual PC console to the machine to handle the shares.

See:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

. Finally, you could fiddle with the default connection limits. If the user needs only occasional and not persistent connections to a shared resource:

. do not map the share in the logon
. if you have to use the logon script, make sure the syntax is:

net use x: \\share_server\share_name /Persistent:No

If the connection is unused for the idle time (see the link), it will be disconnected automaticly and available as a legal resource for another workstation. Now the link:

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/q138/3/65.asp&NoWebContent=1

But the connection is not lost forever:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297684

and note:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;283492&Product=winxp

Bill Castner