users limitation in Win XP Home

I have a running five machines (all Win XP Home) and one
of them acts as a server for a particular program. There
are two routers involved and all machines can access the
Internet. It seems only three machines at a time can
access the database on the 'server'. The fourth machine
get an error saying that the max number of connections
have been used (or some such message). I can't get
anything but 'simple sharing' going...no advanced. Would
a Win XP Pro upgrade on the server allow more users? Can
I configure XP Home to allow more users at a time?
I know one of you brainiacs knows this one.
Thanks

Pretty sure there is a 5 connection limit with XP Home
XP Pro has 10.
More and you'll need either Win9x or Server.

Bob Cerelli
http://www.onecomputerguy.com

"hiwatt" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:e1e701c43c1d$ac991c10$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>I have a running five machines (all Win XP Home) and one
> of them acts as a server for a particular program. There
> are two routers involved and all machines can access the
> Internet. It seems only three machines at a time can
> access the database on the 'server'. The fourth machine
> get an error saying that the max number of connections
> have been used (or some such message). I can't get
> anything but 'simple sharing' going...no advanced. Would
> a Win XP Pro upgrade on the server allow more users? Can
> I configure XP Home to allow more users at a time?
> I know one of you brainiacs knows this one.
> Thanks
>

Home has a limit of 5 connections, and XP allows 10. I don't know how
the connections are counted, but you've apparently hit the limit.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms




hiwatt wrote:
> I have a running five machines (all Win XP Home) and one
> of them acts as a server for a particular program. There
> are two routers involved and all machines can access the
> Internet. It seems only three machines at a time can
> access the database on the 'server'. The fourth machine
> get an error saying that the max number of connections
> have been used (or some such message). I can't get
> anything but 'simple sharing' going...no advanced. Would
> a Win XP Pro upgrade on the server allow more users? Can
> I configure XP Home to allow more users at a time?
> I know one of you brainiacs knows this one.
> Thanks
>

They're counted by *connection*, not by user or
workstation count.

As an example, if you have an XP Home machine sharing a
printer and a remote workstation has two shared files
open, the machine using the shares is using three
connections, not one.

Hope this helps -

>-----Original Message-----
>Home has a limit of 5 connections, and XP allows 10. I
don't know how
>the connections are counted, but you've apparently hit
the limit.
>
>Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.
>
>rms
>
>
>
>
>hiwatt wrote:
>> I have a running five machines (all Win XP Home) and
one
>> of them acts as a server for a particular program.
There
>> are two routers involved and all machines can access
the
>> Internet. It seems only three machines at a time can
>> access the database on the 'server'. The fourth
machine
>> get an error saying that the max number of connections
>> have been used (or some such message). I can't get
>> anything but 'simple sharing' going...no advanced.
Would
>> a Win XP Pro upgrade on the server allow more users?
Can
>> I configure XP Home to allow more users at a time?
>> I know one of you brainiacs knows this one.
>> Thanks
>>
>.
>

In article <e27f01c43c2c$d266b330$a001280a@phx.gbl>, "allan grossman
[mvp]" <allan_grossman@hotmail.com> wrote:
>They're counted by *connection*, not by user or
>workstation count.
>
>As an example, if you have an XP Home machine sharing a
>printer and a remote workstation has two shared files
>open, the machine using the shares is using three
>connections, not one.
>
>Hope this helps -

Are you sure about that, Allan? I just looked at this Microsoft
Knowledge Base article:

Inbound Connections Limit in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;314882

Here's an excerpt from it:

"All logical drive, logical printer, and transport level connections
combined from a single computer are considered to be one session;
therefore, these connections only count as one connection in the ten-
connection limit. For example, if a user establishes two logical drive
connections, two Windows sockets, and one logical printer connection
to a Windows XP system, one session is established. As a result, there
will be only one less connection that can be made to the Windows XP
system, even though three logical connections have been established."

I haven't done any testing to see if the article is right.
--
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You might want to double check this.

I just made 24 connections to my XP Pro computer (12 each from two different
other computers).

Bob Cerelli
http://www.onecomputerguy.com

"allan grossman [mvp]" <allan_grossman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e27f01c43c2c$d266b330$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> They're counted by *connection*, not by user or
> workstation count.
>
> As an example, if you have an XP Home machine sharing a
> printer and a remote workstation has two shared files
> open, the machine using the shares is using three
> connections, not one.
>
> Hope this helps -
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Home has a limit of 5 connections, and XP allows 10. I
> don't know how
>>the connections are counted, but you've apparently hit
> the limit.
>>
>>Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.
>>
>>rms
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>hiwatt wrote:
>>> I have a running five machines (all Win XP Home) and
> one
>>> of them acts as a server for a particular program.
> There
>>> are two routers involved and all machines can access
> the
>>> Internet. It seems only three machines at a time can
>>> access the database on the 'server'. The fourth
> machine
>>> get an error saying that the max number of connections
>>> have been used (or some such message). I can't get
>>> anything but 'simple sharing' going...no advanced.
> Would
>>> a Win XP Pro upgrade on the server allow more users?
> Can
>>> I configure XP Home to allow more users at a time?
>>> I know one of you brainiacs knows this one.
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>.
>>

I think the two routers you've specified count as the other two

"hiwatt" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:e1e701c43c1d$ac991c10$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I have a running five machines (all Win XP Home) and one
> of them acts as a server for a particular program. There
> are two routers involved and all machines can access the
> Internet. It seems only three machines at a time can
> access the database on the 'server'. The fourth machine
> get an error saying that the max number of connections
> have been used (or some such message). I can't get
> anything but 'simple sharing' going...no advanced. Would
> a Win XP Pro upgrade on the server allow more users? Can
> I configure XP Home to allow more users at a time?
> I know one of you brainiacs knows this one.
> Thanks
>

Jonathan wrote:

> I think the two routers you've specified count as the other two
>
> "hiwatt" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:e1e701c43c1d$ac991c10$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>
>>I have a running five machines (all Win XP Home) and one
>>of them acts as a server for a particular program. There
>>are two routers involved and all machines can access the
>>Internet. It seems only three machines at a time can
>>access the database on the 'server'. The fourth machine
>>get an error saying that the max number of connections
>>have been used (or some such message). I can't get
>>anything but 'simple sharing' going...no advanced. Would
>>a Win XP Pro upgrade on the server allow more users? Can
>>I configure XP Home to allow more users at a time?
>>I know one of you brainiacs knows this one.
>>Thanks

Uh, no; routers do not normally create connections to PCs.
For example, my home LAN currently has 5 connections from 5 PCs
to one of my XP HE PCs, and all use the router for web access
(and N-1 of them use DHCP). All 5 connections concurrently work
(for R/W access), and when I attempt to create a 6th, it is rejected.

Also, most of the 5 connections support access to both a shared
folder and a shared printer on that target XP HE PC -- demonstrating
that the connection limit is based on PCs, not on resources.
--
Cheers, Bob