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Gaurav Kapoor

Sir, I want to use windows XP home edition to make a home
network of 10 systems. Do I need to purchase 10 copies of
Home edition or only 1 copy will solve my purpose. If only
1 copy is required then please advise on KB article about
setting up the Small LAN of 10 systems

Thanx
Gaurav
 
you require a volume licence, to be legal
Might not WinXP Pro be more appropriate for a network of 10?
David
 
|Sir, I want to use windows XP home edition to make a home
|network of 10 systems. Do I need to purchase 10 copies of
|Home edition or only 1 copy will solve my purpose. If only
|1 copy is required then please advise on KB article about
|setting up the Small LAN of 10 systems
|
|Thanx
|Gaurav
|

You need a copy of XP for each machine. However, XP Home will only allow
5 current connections at the same time and XP Pro will allow 10. You are
RIGHT on the borderline of having to use Windows server with XP Pro.

AFAIK....)
 
rifleman said:
|Sir, I want to use windows XP home edition to make a home
|network of 10 systems. Do I need to purchase 10 copies of
|Home edition or only 1 copy will solve my purpose. If only
|1 copy is required then please advise on KB article about
|setting up the Small LAN of 10 systems
|
|Thanx
|Gaurav
|

You need a copy of XP for each machine. However, XP Home will only allow
5 current connections at the same time and XP Pro will allow 10. You are
RIGHT on the borderline of having to use Windows server with XP Pro.

AFAIK....)
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All depends on how the machines interconnect. If 10 machines, and all
machines share files/printers/whatever on one machine, then only 1
machine has to be XP Pro (to support up to 9 other machines plus
itself). Other machines will quite happily accept up to 5 connections
each, my hunch is they'd be hard pressed to have so many connections on
so many machines. So ... 1 copy of XP pro, and 9 copies XP Homee.
 
|rifleman wrote:
|
|> In article <[email protected]>,
|> (e-mail address removed) says...
|> |Sir, I want to use windows XP home edition to make a home
|> |network of 10 systems. Do I need to purchase 10 copies of
|> |Home edition or only 1 copy will solve my purpose. If only
|> |1 copy is required then please advise on KB article about
|> |setting up the Small LAN of 10 systems
|> |
|> |Thanx
|> |Gaurav
|> |
|>
|> You need a copy of XP for each machine. However, XP Home will only allow
|> 5 current connections at the same time and XP Pro will allow 10. You are
|> RIGHT on the borderline of having to use Windows server with XP Pro.
|>
|> AFAIK....)
|
|
|All depends on how the machines interconnect. If 10 machines, and all
|machines share files/printers/whatever on one machine, then only 1
|machine has to be XP Pro (to support up to 9 other machines plus
|itself). Other machines will quite happily accept up to 5 connections
|each, my hunch is they'd be hard pressed to have so many connections on
|so many machines. So ... 1 copy of XP pro, and 9 copies XP Homee.
|
|
True - I would guess that if all ten are used on a daily basis then
administration of the network would be easier using some sort of server
software anyway......particularly as administering a 10-user P2P network
would be quite time consuming I think......
 
I would buy a good quality 10 port router with firewall that supports UPnP.
Choose one that suits your Internet connection method (eg Cable, DSL etc). .

Run the WindowsXP "Network Setup Wizard" and select the option "I connect
to the Internet using a hub". Ignore the security warning about hubs as they
do not apply to Routers.

When you install WinXP give each computer a name with no spaces in it
(Comp1, Comp2 etc).
 
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Gaurav Kapoor said:
Sir, I want to use windows XP home edition to make a home
network of 10 systems. Do I need to purchase 10 copies of
Home edition or only 1 copy will solve my purpose. If only
1 copy is required then please advise on KB article about
setting up the Small LAN of 10 systems
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Just answered in another thread. Please don't post the same
question eight minutes apart.
 
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