I have a question about What's 
the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?:


I am currently Running a 6 computer Network In a small office, and am limited by 
the "Built in Support for up to 5 peer to peer connections" in Windows XP Home. I 
use one of the 6 Computers ( All Win XP Home) as a simple file server for centralised 
backup but my problem is only 5 of the 6 computers can connect at once. 

Will Installing Windows XP Pro on the Server machine solve my problem and allow for 
future expansion of the network?

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XP Pro allows up to 10 connections. You just need to look at what future growth you 
may have. 

Ironically Win98 doesn't have any limit I am aware of. If all you need to do is share 
files, it works quite well. You can easily password protect shares if you need to 
restrict access to data.

Bob Cerelli






On Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 3:39 pm, Anthony Lewis wrote:
>I have a question about What's 
>the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?:

>
>I am currently Running a 6 computer Network In a small office, and am limited by 
>the "Built in Support for up to 5 peer to peer connections" in Windows XP Home. 
I 
>use one of the 6 Computers ( All Win XP Home) as a simple file server for centralised 
>backup but my problem is only 5 of the 6 computers can connect at once. 
>
>Will Installing Windows XP Pro on the Server machine solve my problem and allow 
for 
>future expansion of the network?

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I guess since XP is reliable enough to serve as a real server they had to throttle it somehow to make more of a market for .Net server when it goes gold. Case


On Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 4:38 pm, Bob Cerelli wrote:

>XP Pro allows up to 10 connections. You just need to look at what future growth 
you 
>may have. 
>
>Ironically Win98 doesn't have any limit I am aware of. If all you need to do is 
share 
>files, it works quite well. You can easily password protect shares if you need to 
>restrict access to data.
>
>Bob Cerelli
>
>

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Pretty much all the workstation versions of NT have had the 10 user limit.

Actually I have a fair amount of clients that use Win98 as a dedicated file server 
and it is very reliable. Usually it is the installed apps that cause most of the 
problems with an operating system. I just install it with the minimum required (video 
and network drivers) and it works very well. Even tested Win95 a few years ago with 
around 100 connections and it did great.

Bob Cerelli






On Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 8:14 pm, Casey wrote:
>I guess since XP is reliable enough to serve as a real server they had to throttle 
>it somehow to make more of a market for .Net server when it goes gold. Case
>
>

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Thanks for the insight guys. I installed Windows XP Pro and it solved the problem. Its amazing to me that I havent noticed these restrictions before, as I am part of a LAN group that meets regularly with 10+ people and shares files. Thanks again.


On Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 8:34 pm, Bob Cerelli wrote:

>Pretty much all the workstation versions of NT have had the 10 user limit.
>
>Actually I have a fair amount of clients that use Win98 as a dedicated file server 
>and it is very reliable. Usually it is the installed apps that cause most of the 
>problems with an operating system. I just install it with the minimum required (video 
>and network drivers) and it works very well. Even tested Win95 a few years ago with 
>around 100 connections and it did great.
>
>Bob Cerelli
>
>

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Why is it that when I installed Pro on my laptop that came with Home, all of my applications disappeared, and I can't connect to the internet any more? Is there a way to revert back to Home if I need to? Thanks

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