Comments on: How to Increase the 10 Connection Limit on a Windows LAN

By: Unwired Tech

Unwired Tech — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:58:44 +0000

Very useful tip…I used this when the each client can’t print to the shared printer in one of the workstation here at the office.

By: Scottie

Scottie — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:08:00 +0000

Hmm. I can’t seem to find that XLS file any more. You could just try searching the registry for “CachedLogonsCount”. I’m not sure if that’s correct, because I don’t have a Vista machine anymore to try it out.

By: Alan Yuan

Alan Yuan — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:44:39 +0000

HI, why I can’t see the comments ?

Btw, I tried this method in my XP server, then I found that in “Computer management”, I can adjust the max users to 20 of the shared resources, however, after 10 computers connect to the server, the 11 will still cannot access the shared folder. It seems no hope. I also install the “Event4226 Patch”, any idea ?

I haven’t set all the workstations to this method, since some computers haven’t gpedit.msc, I can’t download from yr site. please help, thanks !!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:24:35 +0000

Hey, thanks a bunch. I couldn’t find a solution anywhere online for this issue after many pages of google results. This was a quick, easy fix. I only wanted to allow all the users on our network to access a 2TB harddrive on our ‘server’ computer and was able to do so by only editing the ‘server’s settings.

Anyway, thanks for saving me $1000!

By: Scottie

Scottie — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:14:49 +0000

Not sure about Win2k server. Don’t know much about it, although I think the server versions are far more restrictive since they want you to pay lots more money for a server that can handle more connections. I could be wrong, though!

By: Fay

Fay — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:30:14 +0000

what about Win 2000 server….

By: Scottie

Scottie — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:28:30 +0000

I made the change to all the puters on the LAN, and that fixed the problem of not having all the computers show up in Network Neighborhood.

Dunno about your second question though!

By: polygonner

polygonner — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:06:32 +0000

hey all
really useful tut but its not working with me
i just went to know if its necessary to config all the pc’s on the lan or just the admin pc ?
another thing :p
if som1 knows how or a program to distribute a file over all the lan computers
thx

By: baba

baba — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:28:58 +0000

Vey useful dude……..
thanks very much…how long i am facing this problem.
once again thanks.

By: MSH

MSH — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:41:28 +0000

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. In other words, don’t do this.

Workgroups are insecure by nature, and if you have to enforce any kind of security in a workgroup then you are in a world of high-maintenance hurt. You have to keep passowrds and user groups and all that in sync, or else you have to have people sharing passwords.

Also, at least at one point (and I think it is still the case), there isn’t just a technical limit imposed. Without a domain controller you are violating the license agreement of WinXP Pro, Vista and 7 if you make these OSes do more than 10 connections at a time.

Of course, if you don’t care about security then there are chances you don’t care about breaking the law either and you are using cracked software

If you are too broke to buy a computer with Windows server on it then use some old junk PC with Linux on it running Samba and you can save a few hundred bucks. Don’t give me crap about Linux being hard either–I’ve set up Windows AND samba domains and samba ain’t any harder these days with OSes like Ubuntu and Mandriva (I’ve done it on both of those OSes without opening a command promt at all). Since it is pretty common practice to do this and there isn’t any language in MSFT EULA’s that says you have to use THEIR server oses to do domains, then I think this option is far more solid. Might not have full group policy capabilities w/ samba, but at least you can manage security better.