OT- XP Networking Issue - Peer to Peer

[office newbie]

I have 9 Windows XP Pro machines running Peer to Peer.
They all connect to a mapped network drive on PC-1.

I know there is 10 connection limit on XP Pro and I need to add two more
computers to my system.

This is only a file share and does not need the firepower of a high end
server running SBS or Windows Server.

Would a small NAS box like Netgear SC101 do the job?

Thanks for any advice.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

No hardware can overcome the ten connection limit for XP.

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[office newbie]

No hardware can overcome the ten connection limit for XP.

But the clients would not be connecting to each other, inly the SAN box

 

[Bob I]

Humm, and the SAN box is attached to?

But the clients would not be connecting to each other, inly the SAN box

 

[Richard G. Harper]

I misread your last post - yes, if you move the shares off the XP box you
also remove the connection limitation of XP. You can have more than ten
computers on any network, the limit only applies to connections to any
shares on an XP computer.

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[josepe]

Exist a small box with a hard disk and a ethernet card and the AC-power
-SAN I believe- that looks like a external CDROM unit, attached to the
switch of the LAN. This have sharing for several lan connections at low
cost. This becomes with a http admin console.

 

[office newbie]

Netgear 16 port 10/100 switch

Humm, and the SAN box is attached to?

 

[office newbie]

Thanks Richard

 

[office newbie]

Thanks Joespe

 

[Bob I]

Then you aren't using the Windows XP box as the connecting point so the
"10 connections" aren't in effect.

 

[office newbie]

Thanks Bob. I was clarifying for others.

Then you aren't using the Windows XP box as the connecting point so the
"10 connections" aren't in effect.