Max number of clients on XP

[SNC]

Anyone know what the max number of open shares an XP box can serve?
I have client that is opening a remote shop and wants to do things on the cheep.
I really would like to tell him to do it himself but his main shop is a cash cow for me.
I have never really thought about it because there is allways a linux box put in, and usualy 10 - 15 users.
I have heard 5 I have heard 10 and somewhere it is said 20. I will just be using simple file shares and 2 printers.
The box that will be the "server" will also be used as a WS. Thanks in advance.

 

[SNC]

Thats what I thought. I get the same answer everywhere I ask it.
Including M$ forum.

 

[MrChad]

I believe the maximum number of connections for XP Professional is 10. This also applies to NT4 Workstation and Windows 2000 Professional.

 

[jonmullen]

10 connections at one single time in pro and 5 for home. Now you could have 100 shares and 100 users, and they could all get access aslong as there was not more than 10 or 5 on at once respectively

 

[SNC]

2 for 10. Works for me. Thanks guys.

 

[spyordie007]

technically it would be 10 users & not 10 connections, a single user could have multiple open connections just as long as you dont have more than 10 users concurrently connected.

-Spy

 

[SNC]

So if they all used the same username it would not matter the actual number of users?

 

[spyordie007]

good question, I know you can have a user logged on from a single location and have many concurrent connections (which is a good thing with file shares because some applications will open many files at once) but I've never tried logging on the same user account from multiple locations and connecting to a workstation. Not that it would matter anyways in your case because they would all have to be the exact same user account (domain member) and not simply have the same name (i.e. "Administrator") just to be able to try it. Of course if you are runing a domain than you should be placing your file share on the server and not on your XP clients...

-Spy