airborne
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Peer to Peer XP Home network limitations
I am helping a friend put together a peer to peer network in his place of business. This is needed simply to share files and printers over the network, as well as share access to the internet via a cable modem and a linksys router.
Everything is working fine at the moment with 5 computers all having windows XP home edition. He went to purchase another machine and was told that you can't share more then 5 machines all running WindowsXP home on the same network.
Can anyone please explain this to me and/or point me to some documentation online that offers this explanation?
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Everything is working fine at the moment with 5 computers all having windows XP home edition. He went to purchase another machine and was told that you can't share more then 5 machines all running WindowsXP home on the same network.
Can anyone please explain this to me and/or point me to some documentation online that offers this explanation?
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Les Moore
Wyliecoyoteuk makes a good point that an older Win98 PC will have no limit on connections as a file/print server, with security the tradeoff. However, the security has been stripped out of XP home almost to the level of Win98 anyway...
XP home will only allow 5 connections to it at a time. Why would all the computers be connecting to all the other computers at the same time? If you are sharin files I would just setup one computer to do that (preferably linux)
but XP pro would also work. If every computer connects to every other computers printer then you'll have to give up sharing one printer (or more) or upgrade to PRO on all machines.
but XP pro would also work. If every computer connects to every other computers printer then you'll have to give up sharing one printer (or more) or upgrade to PRO on all machines.
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