JohnDG wrote:

> want to add a scanner station to a small business setup with 7 PC's
> on a network - no server - peer to peer with an XP Pro machine as
> database server. went to DELL for low cost PC special - DELL says
> must use XP PRO for scan station because XP HOME cannot be in a
> netwrok with more than 5 machines. Is this correct?


No, not exactly. The limit is not on the number of computers in a network,
it's one number of simultaneous connections you have. Ten is the limit for
XP Professional and five for XP Home. Depending on how your netwrok is used,
it's possible that XP Home might work.

Perhaps more important, however, is another issue. Are you that aware that
most scanners have no network support at all? There are may be some very
high-priced scanners that have network support, but I don't know of any. In
general,. since you have to be at the scanner to insert documents into it, a
networked scanner isn't usually useful anyway.


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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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