Workgroup File Sharing

[Guest]

How can I allow more than 10 users to acces a file share i've set up on a
workgroup computer?

This is a huge problem for me as I'm running a workgroup on a windows XP SP2
machine at a school and have set up the computer as a file server for the
workgroup. I have a total of 32 computer on said network. When I open the
computer lab for the students to use then many of them could not access the
server because the computer had accepted as many connections as it could
accept.

I have enabled advanced networking on the server and it will only allow me
to have 10 people connecting to the server at one time.

Any help that anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

You cannot without upgrading to a server operating system.

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[Philip Herlihy]

You may be able to distribute files (one-way) conveniently if you set up a
web server (IIS) on the host and create a simple page of links. HTTP
connections aren't connection-oriented, and although there is still a limit
on concurrent connections they'd have to be accessing the site all at once
to hit it, and that's unlikely (unless the file-size to bandwidth ratio is
unusually large).

Otherwise, as Richard says, you need (expensive) server software (unless
there is some bolshevik Linux solution). Ask about educational licensing
for Windows server products, and consider Terminal Server (centralised
administration).