Re: Sharing Printer using XP Home

Matt Dougherty wrote:

> I have a PC in our office that is running XP Home and
> sharing a printer. Several PC's in the wkgp can access
> the printer but some cannot alhtough we can ping, etc.. I
> noticed that when I try and expand the shared folder on
> the XP Home machine from another PC, I get a message that
> the XP Home machine already has as many remote
> connections as it can support. Can anyone tell what the
> limit is for XP Home? I'm sure that this is at the root
> of my printing issue.

XP HE has a fixed limit of 5 concurrent inbound connections
to its resources. The limit is based on PC-count, not a
count of resources being accessed. With XP PRO, the limit
is 10.
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Cheers, Bob