limits to peer-to-peer workgroups

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Jim Price

Since my school switched to XP Professional, when more than a small number
of computers attempt to access a shared folder on my computer via mapped
network drives, I get the following message:

"No more connections can be made to this remote computer at this time
because there are already as many connections as the computer can accept."

There are only about 17 computers that need to access this computer. What
is the problem? Why did I never get this message in the bad old days of
Windows 98?
 
"Jim Price" said:
Since my school switched to XP Professional, when more than a small number
of computers attempt to access a shared folder on my computer via mapped
network drives, I get the following message:

"No more connections can be made to this remote computer at this time
because there are already as many connections as the computer can accept."

There are only about 17 computers that need to access this computer. What
is the problem? Why did I never get this message in the bad old days of
Windows 98?
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XP Professional allows a maximum of 10 other computers to connect to
its shared resources simultaneously. Computers that aren't actively
connected to a computer's shared resources don't count against the
limit. When a computer disconnects from a shared resource, it no
longer counts against the limit. Unfortunately, mapping a network
drive counts as a connection.

See this site for more information:

Inbound Connections Limit in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314882
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