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Old 01-05-2006, 04:04 AM
Kerry Brown
 
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Default Re: XP PRO on a Pentium 3 733 for use as a print server

"Aaron" <Aaron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:55A14864-FF29-4F65-ACC8-C234E059AF43@microsoft.com...
> We are a Architecture and engineering firm with 12 production staff. We
> just
> updated several workstations and are considering replacing our current
> print
> server with one of the older production machines (yet newer than our
> current
> print server). Are there any reasons not to put XP Pro on a Pentium 7 733
> for
> use as our print server.
>


Windows XP Pro has a limit of 10 connections. With twelve staff you will
have problems if more than ten try to connect.

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;314882

The PIII-733 will work fine. Make sure you have at least 512 MB of ram and a
at least a few GB of free hard drive space if many people are printing at
the same time.

Kerry


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