I heard that there are some license restrictions of running a web server on
Windows XP professional. Is that true that only 10 clients can access to
the web server on Windows XP Professional? Does this restriction only
applies to IIS or any web server installed on XP?
Would appreciate much if you could direct me to the Microsoft office license
info site. I tried but failed to find the right place.
Thanks a lot.
From TechRepublic:
"There has been this limitation since NT4 Workstation. The Windows user
operating systems (NT4 Workstation, 2000 Professional, XP) have a
hard-coded limit of 10 concurrent connected users when connecting to shared
items like a shared folder and/or shared printer. This limit is enforced on
the machine that is sharing the object.
So, in using a 2000 Pro machine as a print server, this print server is
where the 10 user limit is enforced. Not on the connecting clients.
Now, there's no way to bypass this.
There's no Registry hack, Group Policy modification, or configuration that
you can do to get more than 10 concurrent connections.
Microsoft has done this so people will buy up the Server-based products
(NT4 Server, 2000 Server, 2003 Server). Those OS versions do NOT have this
concurrent client connection limit. If the personal OS versions didn't have
the limit, then why even bother buying a Server product??? That's the
logic, anyway.
This is not due to the TCP/IP half-open connection limit that XP has.
This is also not anything to do with IIS. In fact, if you run IIS on a NT4
Workstation, 2000 Professional, or XP machine, it also suffers from this
same problem. A FTP server running in IIS on one of these operating system
versions has a max concurrent connected user limit of 10.
So:
1) no client-side changes will fix this.
2) yes, this is why you are experiencing this.
3) get 2000 Server (any version) or 2003 Server (any version) and you won't
have this problem."
You can use Apache web server to bypass this restriction.
