Question by bretk: How can I get around the 10 connection limit on a peer to peer network?
We have a peer to peer network at work with 14 computers. We have a shared drive on 1 of the computers that everyone has to connect to. The share drive is running on WINXP MCE. From what I understand is that there is a 10 connection limit. We keep getting errors saying that no more connections can be made. Is there any way to work around this? Do I have to install server? Also, when I run a netstat on the computer it still shows computers connected to it that dont have any files open from it and have been sitting untouched for hours. I thought that the disconnect time was 15 minutes by default. Any help would be appreciated. Thankx.
Best answer:
Answer by Walker13
If your reaching limits like this and you have that many machines then it would be cost effective to get a server and a switch for everyone. This in turn would allow you to move the data on that one machine to the server and also allow for multiple connections at a time.
Another more cost effective route is this option. Linksys offers a data server which is just a harddrive on a machine that you can connect to your switch. So your network would consist of a linksys router for internet, a switch for the multiple machines to share the connection, and this data server which would be like a server. Then you could make multiple connections to this machine as long as it is on.
Hope that helps.
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