copley69 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 I am working for a university and need to add a server to our college. How many machines can link up to XP when being used as a server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InTheWayBoy Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 (edited) 10That's 10 concurrently...you can have 20 machines, but it will stop serving to any clients after it hits 10. Edited October 10, 2005 by InTheWayBoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemonforce Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 10That's 10 concurrently...you can have 20 machines, but it will stop serving to any clients after it hits 10.No. This has to be wrong. Newegg wouldn't even be in business. =/I believe the maximum client connections can be set manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InTheWayBoy Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 (edited) Yes, it is right...yes, there is a way around it, but it's illegal.M$ limits the number of concurrent connections to 10 on all OS's...except their server class OS's. The idea is that if you have more than 10 people trying to share a printer or files, then you should be using their more expensive server class OS.As I mentioned, you can have 20, 30, even 100 computers all mapped to a single winxp computer sharing a printer or files...and all will work until you hit that magic number 10. So if out of your 20 users only half are printing at any given time then you won't have a problem. If all 20 tried to print at the same time, then your 'server' would reject anything past 10. As for the way around it...well, there have been posts here dealing with it, and there is a ton of links outside of the forum. As I understand it there is no real down-side to the hack, but just know M$ doesn't approve of it.In fact, one of the two stickies in this forum discusses the way around this...I'll let you figure out which one And just to back all that up:http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;314882http://support.microsoft.com/kb/122920/EN-US/Straight from the horses mouth...enjoy! Edited October 10, 2005 by InTheWayBoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilifrei64 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 InTheWayBoy is absoutely correct. 10 is the limit and yes things can be modified.. but yes this can be modified but is also in violation of EULA. As for using this on a college campus.. sounds like a "business". Have them purchase a server OS for server functions and desktop OS for desktop functions so they stay out of licensing legal troubles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suryad Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 Agreed and I am sure an educational institution gets some kind of price breaks dont they upon purchase of new software? So I would get the Server edition as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCSE Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 every administrator can install 10 xp each on one computer!Microsoft rules... :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 Windows Server 2003 Standard retails at less then $600 commercially, and the educational version is even less then that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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