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by kagi87

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I was using Win 2000 to share my printer in Cyber cafe of 20 PCs then after I replaced it winth Windows XP and I am no longer able to connect more than ten PCS so what can I do to extend these connections

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by timwalsh

ALL MS desktop OSes (Win9x, ME, NT Workstation, Win2K Pro, and WinXP) have a built in limitation of 10 connections. This limitation is mainly to deliniate between a desktop operating system and a TRUE server operating system (it could also be argued that it is a marketing ploy by MS to force people to buy a server OS).

Sorry, but the ONLY way to go beyond this limitation is to purchase one of the Server OSes (NT Server, Win2K Server, Windows Server 2003).

by junk

The obvious answer is to upgrade to a server OS (Win 2000, NT, or the new Win2003 Server). Barring this, you can purchase a cheap printer, and have half of your cafe' print to one, and the other half print to the other printer.

Just my two cents.

Joe Griego
Bishop, CA

by shepherr

Rather than paying for an OS (and client licenses) to host the printer on, buy a cheap network print server, give it an IP and set the clinet PCs to print directly to the printer.

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