Hello, We are using XP home as our main computer and we have 5 workstations that need to map a drive to the XP home main computer. 4 of the computer can connect but when the 5th one tries to connect it says that the computer is already at its max connections and cannot take any more connections. I have read that XP home can have up to 5 connections to it and XP Pro can have up to ten. I am trying to figure out why the XP home machine is only allowing 4 computer to map a drive to it? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Tom Hoffman1 person needs an answerI do too

Ok some more information. When the fifth computer is rebooted it cannot open the mapped drive to the server. But if we go to run and browse to the server with \\server_name we can open the share. Then we re-map the drive to the same drive letter and all is good? Not sure why we cannot access the mapped drive upon booting up? Any ideas? Thank you, Tom

Anyone?? We are still getting the error about to many connections to the XP Home computer. Thank you, Tom

This, unfortunately, is 'normal' behaviour. When a computer maps a drive it first makes a connection to the IPC$ share, then establishes the required share, then disconnects from IPC$. I think you can see why this would limit the users to four. The only sensible resolutions are XP Pro (9 users) or a server OS. Or a NAS box. These typically run Linux and have no licensing restrictions.

Thank you for your responses.We have updated the machine to Windows XP Pro but for some reason we are still getting the error. I have noticed that the machine is on SP2 for XP and I thought I read something about SP2 having some kind of restrictions on allowing people to connect to it but I cannot seem to find it now. Would installing SP3 possibly cure this. I have recommended to the owner that upgrading to a server would be the correct way to fix this but she says it is not in the budget right now.Thank you again,Tom

Anyone please?Thank you,Tom

Bump for help.Thank you,Tom

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=328459Microsoft article above on why you're having that issue.Craig.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=328459Microsoft article above on why you're having that issue.Craig.