Is there a way to increase the number of users on a network? We seems to be
stuck at 6.

One cannot increase the limit beyond five in XP Home.

Inbound connections limit in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;314882

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"aoinwpb" wrote:

| Is there a way to increase the number of users on a network? We seems to be
| stuck at 6.

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
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> One cannot increase the limit beyond five in XP Home.
>
> Inbound connections limit in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;314882
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows - Shell/User
> Microsoft Community Newsgroups
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/
>
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>

Carey

It maybe me, it is after 2 am here, but the article you refer to talks about
'simultaneously connect ' so from that I assume that you can have more than
5 XP Home PCs in a network, just do not go mad on mapping etc.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Dick

Dick Cardy wrote:

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>
>
> Carey
>
> It maybe me, it is after 2 am here, but the article you refer to talks about
> 'simultaneously connect ' so from that I assume that you can have more than
> 5 XP Home PCs in a network, just do not go mad on mapping etc.
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Dick
>
>

You're correct. But bear in mind one a single remote computer may need
to make more than one connection to the host PC, particularly if there
are shared folders and a shared printer involved.


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"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@cable0ne.n3t> wrote in message
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> Dick Cardy wrote:
>
> > -----------------
> >
> >
> > Carey
> >
> > It maybe me, it is after 2 am here, but the article you refer to talks
about
> > 'simultaneously connect ' so from that I assume that you can have more
than
> > 5 XP Home PCs in a network, just do not go mad on mapping etc.
> >
> > Please correct me if I am wrong.
> >
> > Dick
> >
> >
>
> You're correct. But bear in mind one a single remote computer may need
> to make more than one connection to the host PC, particularly if there
> are shared folders and a shared printer involved.
>
>
> --
>
> Bruce Chambers
>

Bruce

Thanks for your reply and point taken

Dick
Microsoft Partner