Here's a challenge for your spare time

[Fraggable]

Yeah, you heard me right. I've recently run into the problem of a Windows XP Pro system only allowing 10 connections per share and am trying this as a last resort before buying Server 2003 Standard for the 2 systems with shares.

Here's the situation: I have a domain with 1 2003 SBS server and about 150 PCs. 2 of those PCs each have 2TB of storage shared to the network for video file backups. I want to map a drive from any of the 150 PCs to the file servers to transfer files over the network, but need more than 10 users connected to the share at one time - something like 25 would be great. I thought that if I mapped a network drive to the storage PCs from the server and then used a logon script to map, say K:, to the mapped network drive on the server, it would only be seen as 1 connection and I can have as many people as I wantusing it at once. Only problem is I can't figure out how to map a drive to a mapped drive...

Thanks for any help

 

[yinan]

You cant

 

[kevnich2]

You cannot share a mapped drive, what you're asking will not work. If you want more than the XP Pro's limit of 10 connections, you have to go with either Server 2003 or Linux with samba.

 

[Ninjazx]

I haven't tested this with the 10 connection limit as I would generally advise a real server install, but you could try setting up the XP boxes you have shares on as FTP servers and map your drives from remote machines using the ftp://xpbox