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I have seen previous disussions about there is no limit
on how many users can be on a network. Yet, I was just
told that I can only allow 10 users on my network with XP
Pro. I've search at Microsoft for an article but nothing
seems to talk about it.

Linksys says that I can allow up to 253 users with my
router. -- This was in the manual for my router specs
online.

Can anybody explain? Perhaps find a link where it talks
about this at Microsoft?
 
If you want more than 10 PC's connected to your XP Pro machine, you need to
buy a server. Workstation (since I've been dealing with them at NT 3.5) have
always had a 10 connection limit.

You can have as many computers as you like on your network, but with out a
server, only 10 PCs can connect to any other 1 at any time.
 
Sam said:
I have seen previous disussions about there is no limit
on how many users can be on a network. Yet, I was just
told that I can only allow 10 users on my network with XP
Pro. I've search at Microsoft for an article but nothing
seems to talk about it.

Linksys says that I can allow up to 253 users with my
router. -- This was in the manual for my router specs
online.

Can anybody explain? Perhaps find a link where it talks
about this at Microsoft?
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There is no Windows limit to the number of PCs that can be on
a LAN. There is no Windows limit to the number of users that
can have accounts on PCs on a LAN. There are limits to the
number of concurrent connections to resources (shares and printers)
on a XP PC: 5 for XP HE, and 10 for XP PRO. The limit is
based on the number of PCs which have concurrent connections,
not on the number of resources connected.
 
Bob Willard said:
There is no Windows limit to the number of PCs that can be on
a LAN. There is no Windows limit to the number of users that
can have accounts on PCs on a LAN. There are limits to the
number of concurrent connections to resources (shares and printers)
on a XP PC: 5 for XP HE, and 10 for XP PRO. The limit is
based on the number of PCs which have concurrent connections,
not on the number of resources connected.
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That's right, Bob. Sam, here's a Microsoft link with details:

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