USER LIMITS ON XP PRO

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David hake

I am running a peer to peer network with a dedicated file sharing computer.
Unfortunately in the infininte wisdom of Microsoft, they consider sharing a
file on more than 10 computers simultaneously a bad thing. I need to share a
database file - .dbf

Does anyone have a solution, I have tried installing third party ODBC and
updated my MDAC...xp is too smart!

Thanks
David Hake
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You should consider installing Windows 2003 Server as your
O/S on that dedicated file sharing computer.

Windows Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx

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

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Nicholas

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| I am running a peer to peer network with a dedicated file sharing computer.
| Unfortunately in the infininte wisdom of Microsoft, they consider sharing a
| file on more than 10 computers simultaneously a bad thing. I need to share a
| database file - .dbf
|
| Does anyone have a solution, I have tried installing third party ODBC and
| updated my MDAC...xp is too smart!
|
| Thanks
| David Hake
 
David said:
I am running a peer to peer network with a dedicated file sharing computer.
Unfortunately in the infininte wisdom of Microsoft, they consider sharing a
file on more than 10 computers simultaneously a bad thing. I need to share a
database file - .dbf

Does anyone have a solution, I have tried installing third party ODBC and
updated my MDAC...xp is too smart!

Thanks
David Hake
(e-mail address removed)
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It's not that Microsoft thinks it's a bad thing, they just limit the
license for 10 connections (or something like that) for XP.

Consider instead:

- Hosting the file on a Windows 2003 Server
- Hosting the file on a Linux Server
 
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