User Limits to shared drives in XP Pro

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Windows XP Pro Op Sys. had been up and running with a shared drive.
no limitations were present. changed the IP address. rebooted. now i
can not get past (10) users logging on. thx - Chris
 
There always has been a ten connection limit in Windows XP Professional, so
whatever change you made had no effect on that.

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Richard G. Harper said:
There always has been a ten connection limit in Windows XP Professional, so
whatever change you made had no effect on that.

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Chris M said:
Windows XP Pro Op Sys. had been up and running with a shared drive.
no limitations were present. changed the IP address. rebooted. now i
can not get past (10) users logging on. thx - Chris
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while the (10) connection limit may have always existed, i have had
more than (10) users hitting there mail boxes at one time. - CM
 
You can repeat this over and over - you'll get no help or sympathy from the
group. We can deduce that evidently you've never had 10 simultaneous
connections to the XP box - changing an IP address would have not
affect/effect on this. If you need more than 10 connections simultaneously,
then buy a server edition with the appropriate number of CALs. The 10
simultaneous limit is hard coded into the XP Pro OS, and 5 simultaneous
limit is hard coded into the XP Home OS. Note: The OS will drop unused
connections based on which connections have been inactive the longest. This
may be what was happening in the past, it just seems it no longer works as
all 10 connections are currently active when doing your testing, thus it
seems to no longer work.

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Chris M said:
while the (10) connection limit may have always existed, i have had
more than (10) users hitting there mail boxes at one time. - CM
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In addition to the other replies (with which I agree), when you say
"mailboxes", what do you mean? Note that accessing Outlook PST files on a
non-local drive isn't supported by MS and can lead to data corruption & data
loss, in addition to performance problems. Not sure if you're using Outlook,
but thought this might be worth mentioning....
 
"Star Fleet Admiral Q"
You can repeat this over and over - you'll get no help or sympathy from the
group. We can deduce that evidently you've never had 10 simultaneous
connections to the XP box - changing an IP address would have not
affect/effect on this. If you need more than 10 connections simultaneously,
then buy a server edition with the appropriate number of CALs. The 10
simultaneous limit is hard coded into the XP Pro OS, and 5 simultaneous
limit is hard coded into the XP Home OS. Note: The OS will drop unused
connections based on which connections have been inactive the longest. This
may be what was happening in the past, it just seems it no longer works as
all 10 connections are currently active when doing your testing, thus it
seems to no longer work.
Click to expand...

As a postcript the 10 connection limit has been present in all
non-server versions of Windows since at least Windows 95.


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Negative ghost rider. Windows 9x architecture has no limit on concurrent
connections (not sure about winME, but who really cares about winME). NT
family has that limit.
 
Manny Borges said:
Negative ghost rider. Windows 9x architecture has no limit on concurrent
connections (not sure about winME, but who really cares about winME). NT
family has that limit.
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Check the license agreements. Some Windows 98 licenses are limited to
5 connections.


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