WinXP, 11 concurrent connections

I have 11 WinXP pro machines connected together to a WinXP pro workstation.
A 12th machine will not be added. I was under the impression that only 10
concurrent users could be logged in with XP. Anyone know the reason for
this?
u2live79@hotmail.com

Stewart;
Windows XI is not intended to be used as a server.
If you need more than 10, you need a server OS such as Windows Server
2003.

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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"Stewart" <me@u.com> wrote in message
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> I have 11 WinXP pro machines connected together to a WinXP pro
workstation.
> A 12th machine will not be added. I was under the impression that
only 10
> concurrent users could be logged in with XP. Anyone know the reason
for
> this?
> u2live79@hotmail.com
>
>

"Stewart" <me@u.com> wrote in message
news:eXEW$rHOEHA.640@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I have 11 WinXP pro machines connected together to a WinXP pro
workstation.
> A 12th machine will not be added. I was under the impression that only 10
> concurrent users could be logged in with XP. Anyone know the reason for
> this?

Are you asking why it allows 11 rather than 10 or why the limit is there to
begin with? The limit is there to prevent XP from eating away at the Server
OS market. Why it allows 11 rather than 10, I don't know unless at least
one of those machines doesn't map to any drives on the XP Pro workstation.
You can have dozens if not hundreds of machines on the same peer-to-peer
network using XP as long as no more than 10 at a time share files from any
one machine.

Tom Lake

Stewart wrote:

> I have 11 WinXP pro machines connected together to a WinXP pro workstation.
> A 12th machine will not be added. I was under the impression that only 10
> concurrent users could be logged in with XP. Anyone know the reason for
> this?

Only ten active connections can be made to any given XP Pro machine. But
you can easily have a workgroup with hundreds of computers and users
logged on, as long as they aren't all trying to connect to the same
machine at the same time.


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Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security