I want to increase the number of allowed concurrent connections to XP Home

[PC Freak]

I have a windows XP Home computer. I would like to allow apporx. 10 concurrent connections to this comptuer. How can I increase the number connections that are allowed?

Thanks

 

[spherrod]

Upgrade to Pro?

 

[PC Freak]

I know I can do that. But is there another way?

 

[InlineFive]

Do you have the source?

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: InlineFive
Do you have the source?

very helpful :roll:

Originally posted by: PC_Freak
I know I can do that. But is there another way?

To the best of my knowledge. There is no other way. That's one of the reason Home edition is "discounted" (I had trouble getting that word out) over Pro edition, because of the restricted licensing.

 

[bruceb]

PC_Freak .. see this link:

<a href="http://www.mydigitallife.info/2005/11/1...p2-tcp-connection-limit-event-id-4226/">Patch program</a>

It is said to do what you want ... I have not tried it myself

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: bruceb
PC_Freak .. see this link:

<a href="http://www.mydigitallife.info/2005/11/1...p2-tcp-connection-limit-event-id-4226/">Patch program</a>

It is said to do what you want ... I have not tried it myself

wrong stuff...he isn't talking about that, he is talking about 5 cuncurrent samba (filesharing) connections.

There is no way to modify home to add connections. you need to get pro (10 connection limit) or server (and CAL's) or move to a free solution (Samba on *nix) or another protocol (ftp, etc)

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: nweaver

Originally posted by: bruceb
PC_Freak .. see this link:

<a href="http://www.mydigitallife.info/2005/11/1...p2-tcp-connection-limit-event-id-4226/">Patch program</a>

It is said to do what you want ... I have not tried it myself

wrong stuff...he isn't talking about that, he is talking about 5 cuncurrent CIFS (filesharing) connections.

There is no way to modify home to add connections. you need to get pro (10 connection limit) or server (and CAL's) or move to a free solution (Samba on *nix) or another protocol (ftp, etc)

fixed I would also suggest trying out an open source solution, but then we really don't know what it is the OP is trying to do.

 

[Alex]

what about

XP-ANTISPY

great program
just google it

increases max connections on wxp pro im sure it can do the same for home

 

[spherrod]

Originally posted by: franguinho
what about

XP-ANTISPY

great program
just google it

increases max connections on wxp pro im sure it can do the same for home

what setting does it change? I've downloaded it and there doesn't appear to be any option to do what the op wants. Are you talking about changing the MaxConnectionsPerServer which allows you to download more than 4 files from IE at the same time?

 

[John]

Originally posted by: spherrod
Are you talking about changing the MaxConnectionsPerServer which allows you to download more than 4 files from IE at the same time?

No, he referring to other pc's accessing network resources on the XP Home pc. XP Pro limit is 10. Any attempts to get around the connection limit would be a licensing hack and thus against the Microsoft EULA and will probably result in a locked thread.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: John

Originally posted by: spherrod
Are you talking about changing the MaxConnectionsPerServer which allows you to download more than 4 files from IE at the same time?

No, he referring to other pc's accessing network resources on the XP Home pc. XP Pro limit is 10. Any attempts to get around the connection limit would be a licensing hack and thus against the Microsoft EULA and will probably result in a locked thread.

I think they are talking about changing the open state TCP connections, as I know that tool won't change the number of samba sessions. That is not a reg setting, I am guessing it's hard coded into a binary file somewhere.

again, no way on XP Home. Options: Pro, Server, or *nix

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: nweaver

Originally posted by: John

Originally posted by: spherrod
Are you talking about changing the MaxConnectionsPerServer which allows you to download more than 4 files from IE at the same time?

No, he referring to other pc's accessing network resources on the XP Home pc. XP Pro limit is 10. Any attempts to get around the connection limit would be a licensing hack and thus against the Microsoft EULA and will probably result in a locked thread.

I think they are talking about changing the open state TCP connections, as I know that tool won't change the number of samba sessions. That is not a reg setting, I am guessing it's hard coded into a binary file somewhere.

again, no way on XP Home. Options: Pro, Server, or *nix

dude, they are not samba connections. It's SMB connections or CIFS.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: nweaver
again, no way on XP Home. Options: Pro, Server, or *nix

Don't forget the Windows 98 option.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: RebateMonger

Originally posted by: nweaver
again, no way on XP Home. Options: Pro, Server, or *nix

Don't forget the Windows 98 option.

I heard that you can get pretty good transfer rates if you get all ninja-like with the floppy disks.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: drag
I heard that you can get pretty good transfer rates if you get all ninja-like with the floppy disks.

LOL. That reminds me of contests we had at work to see who could swap floppies the fastest while making backups.

 

[spherrod]

Originally posted by: John

Originally posted by: spherrod
Are you talking about changing the MaxConnectionsPerServer which allows you to download more than 4 files from IE at the same time?

No, he referring to other pc's accessing network resources on the XP Home pc. XP Pro limit is 10. Any attempts to get around the connection limit would be a licensing hack and thus against the Microsoft EULA and will probably result in a locked thread.

I know what the op is referring to - I was talking specifically about the Antispy software Franguinho mentioned which doesn't seem to have any options to alter the Network resource limit.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Brazen
dude, they are not samba connections. It's SMB connections or CIFS.

SaMBa

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Brazen
dude, they are not samba connections. It's SMB connections or CIFS.

SaMBa

Samba is a program (that runs on linux only) that was named after the SMB protocol (which is what Microsoft file sharing uses, but the latest iteration is now called CIFS).

I'm pretty sure mweaver knows this and I know you, n0c, know this, I just don't want newbies to get confused.

 

[drag]

CIFS = Common Internet File System.

It's (CIFS specificly) was a bid by IBM and friends to standardize the SMB protocol... But realy SMB is a disaster of horrific porportions. It's a ad-hoc standard created by the fact that it's the only network file system that Windows desktops systems support well. Also it's completely unsuitable for use over the internet.

SMB = server message block.

SMB and CIFS are about the same thing. CIFS is more for referencing latest versions of it, a more documented/standard version. There are various semi-compatable versions of SMB going all the way back to MS-DOS days. About each time Microsoft releases a new OS they make a new version of SMB.

SAMBA is a Free software project to make a compatable version of Microsoft Window's File, Print, and Directory Services for the Linux platform. It is wildly successful. If you have a operating system, embedded device, or anything remotely resembling a computer that can share files with Windows operating systems and it is NOT running a Windows operating system then your running SAMBA to do that.

Apple OS X uses it. NAS embedded devices use it. IBM uses it. HP uses it. Everybody and their mom except Microsoft uses it. It's about the only thing going for doing windows file and print sharing outside of using a windows OS.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Brazen

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Brazen
dude, they are not samba connections. It's SMB connections or CIFS.

SaMBa

Samba is a program (that runs on linux only) that was named after the SMB protocol (which is what Microsoft file sharing uses, but the latest iteration is now called CIFS).

I'm pretty sure mweaver knows this and I know you, n0c, know this, I just don't want newbies to get confused.

I thnk it runs on most unix-like systems.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: drag
CIFS = Common Internet File System.

It's (CIFS specificly) was a bid by IBM and friends to standardize the SMB protocol... But realy SMB is a disaster of horrific porportions. It's a ad-hoc standard created by the fact that it's the only network file system that Windows desktops systems support well. Also it's completely unsuitable for use over the internet.

SMB = server message block.

SMB and CIFS are about the same thing. CIFS is more for referencing latest versions of it, a more documented/standard version. There are various semi-compatable versions of SMB going all the way back to MS-DOS days. About each time Microsoft releases a new OS they make a new version of SMB.

SAMBA is a Free software project to make a compatable version of Microsoft Window's File, Print, and Directory Services for the Linux platform. It is wildly successful. If you have a operating system, embedded device, or anything remotely resembling a computer that can share files with Windows operating systems and it is NOT running a Windows operating system then your running SAMBA to do that.

Apple OS X uses it. NAS embedded devices use it. IBM uses it. HP uses it. Everybody and their mom except Microsoft uses it. It's about the only thing going for doing windows file and print sharing outside of using a windows OS.

Microsoft supposedly uses some of the regression test for Samba 4 (IIRC).