Max User on Shared Folder for W2K Pro

[karweng]

Dear All,

I'm wondering if there's anyway around the maximum of 10 user set on W2K Pro shared folder.

 

[Davetoo]

Yes. Upgrade to Windows 2000 Server.

I'm Certifiable, not certified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[Code666]

maybe there is a registry key you can change (much like the key that would change an NT4 workstation to server) but not too sure. this is very likely by design so anything more than 10 users and you will need to deploy a 2K server.

Edward

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[wolluf]

Code666

There's not - and it would invalidate your licence if you could do such (you can't change NT workstation to server with just a registry key change either) - though there have been posters here in the past who have worked out a method of 'upgrading Pro to server' - though not published here.

karweng

as lander says - upgrade to server. Or use a different operating system for your file server (eg linux or older Windows - 9x/ME do not have the 10 limit - which to me makes 2k's limit bizarre).

 

[bcastner]

If there were a decent registry hack I would not comment at all here. But there is not, as wolluf states above. So the Holy Grail eludes as all, once again.

Honestly, while there are tons of hacks to mack at times the Windows Title appear as if it is a Server version, and a ton of mysterious registry hacks to increase limits, the APIs required are simply not there under Win2k Pro to make this possible.

Way, way, back in the pre-release days, there was little difference between Win2k Pro and Win2k Standard Server. But for any commercial release, and certainly any current release, there is no magic registry fix to the 10 user limit possible.

If there were, I honestly would not have said anything in this thread. But I can honestly tell you that there is no hack.

 

[karweng]

Thanks everyone, guess I will have to add a NAS that offer unlimited users to expand the storage.