Can't access computer on XP network

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We have a small office network. Ten computers: 4 XP
home, 3 XP Pro, 3 Win 98SE. We can only have 3 computers
at a time share a file on another computer. Any way to
increase this? The computers directly connect through a
LAN.
 
What type of topology is your network
star, daisy or token
do you have them all connected to a hub,server, router etc
are they all in a domain or a workgroup
 
How are they networked together?

Generally Windows file sharing on client OS's is limited to 10 concurrent
connections.

More details would be useful.
 
Pat said:
We have a small office network. Ten computers: 4 XP
home, 3 XP Pro, 3 Win 98SE. We can only have 3 computers
at a time share a file on another computer. Any way to
increase this? The computers directly connect through a
LAN.
Click to expand...

See answers, from me and others, to a slightly earlier thread.
 
We have a small office network. Ten computers: 4 XP
home, 3 XP Pro, 3 Win 98SE. We can only have 3 computers
at a time share a file on another computer. Any way to
increase this? The computers directly connect through a
LAN.
Click to expand...

Look to see how many MAPPED Drives are in use. Drive mapping can be
handy but it's lethal in a peer-to-peer network because it creates
persistent connections.

You can only have 10 open connections at once so I suspect that you
have something like 7 mapped drive connections and that leaves 3
connections free to work on a shared file.

Drive Mapping isn't normally necessary. You should be able to browse
to the network shares you need.

Hope this helps
 
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