Microsoft Windows XP Network isssues.

[Daniel]

Dear Sir,
I'm running a Windows XP Professional SP1 as my server of
15 PCs with windows 98 SE as clients.

Each of the clients will map the network drives on the
server when ever they start.

When I add more client PC to my network, and try to map
the network drive on server I will receive a message from
the server stated that the server can't accept any more
connection cause the server is unable to support too many
connection at once.

I wonder why this will have in windows xp pro sp1, when
the time I using win98 as this kind of server there are
no this kind of connection full problems.

Please help to solve my problem and reply to me at:
(e-mail address removed)

Thanks in advanced for your kindly help.

with Regards,
Daniel

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Dear Sir,
I'm running a Windows XP Professional SP1 as my server of
15 PCs with windows 98 SE as clients.

Each of the clients will map the network drives on the
server when ever they start.

When I add more client PC to my network, and try to map
the network drive on server I will receive a message from
the server stated that the server can't accept any more
connection cause the server is unable to support too many
connection at once.

I wonder why this will have in windows xp pro sp1, when
the time I using win98 as this kind of server there are
no this kind of connection full problems.

Please help to solve my problem and reply to me at:
(e-mail address removed)

Thanks in advanced for your kindly help.

with Regards,
Daniel

Windows XP Professional allows a maximum of 10 other computers to
connect to its shared resources simultaneously. Computers that aren't
actively connected to a computer's shared resources don't count
against the limit. When a computer disconnects from a shared
resource, it no longer counts against the limit. Unfortunately,
mapping a network drive counts as a connection, so it isn't possible
to map the drive from more than 10 other computers.

See this site for more information:

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

Windows XP Professional allows a maximum of 10 other
computers to
connect to its shared resources simultaneously.
Computers that aren't
actively connected to a computer's shared resources don't
count
against the limit. When a computer disconnects from a
shared
resource, it no longer counts against the limit.
Unfortunately,
mapping a network drive counts as a connection, so it
isn't possible
to map the drive from more than 10 other computers.

See this site for more information:

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

 

[Daniel]

Dear Sir,

Thanks for your information,
I would like to know whether I can solve this problem by
upgrade to Windows Server 2003 or downgrade it to Windows
98 SE.

Thanks in advance.

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[Bob Willard]

Dear Sir,

Thanks for your information,
I would like to know whether I can solve this problem by
upgrade to Windows Server 2003 or downgrade it to Windows
98 SE.

For sure, upgrading your server from a client OS to a server OS
will eliminate the 10-connection limit in XP PRO.

I think that downgrading to W98SE will also eliminate that limit,
but at least one MVP says that W9x also had a connection limit.
Unfortunately, I don't have enough PCs on my LAN to confirm or
deny, and I don't know of a M$ KB article that answers that
question.