Hi guys,

We have recently acquired around 20 pc's it came pre-loaded with
Windows XP Home and when we tried to share the resources in the
network we couldn't do so. We couldn't view the shared documents,
printers or even make them join a Red hat linux server.

Then we gave a call to dell tech support, they supplied us the PC's,
they couldn't help. They mentioned that XP Home we can have a max of
five Pc's only on the network, if we have more the 5 Pc's then we have
to buy XP Pro. The same was rethorated by Microsoft tech-support as
well.

I was watching a old repeat of G4 TV program "Screen savers", they
mentioned a few changes in the register whereby we can make XP Home
work similar to XP Pro. The steps were in their website, but when i
logged the page was long gone.. So, i need the steps to be followed to
edit my XP Home registry to make it fully functional to XP Pro.

So, please advise the steps.

Regards,

Arun_P.

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 24 Oct 2005 23:11 PDT

Arun...

According to this post by Dr.Johannes Helmig on WindowsNetworking,
even XP Pro only allows 10 simultaneous network connections:
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxpservr.htm#limit

And according to this post by Corduroy on Tweak Town Global Forums,
the more users that are connected, the slower the access time for
the rest of the users:

"Why would you want more than 5 computers to connect to another
 computer at once? Every user that logs on slows down the access
 times of the other users who are using that box..."
http://forums.tweaktown.com/showthread.php?t=2085&page=3

Let me know where this takes you...

sublime1-ga

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Clarification of Question by arun_p-ga on 25 Oct 2005 00:31 PDT

Hi Sublime1,

Thanks for your request for clarification. This info that you're
giving me is a known fact. I just wanted to know to make XP pro to be
able to connect to 10 sessions or more in a network similar to an XP
Pro. So, kindly focus your reply on that.

Regards,

Arun_p

backup your registry, then do the following:
go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/ProductOptions
and delete the value of the key "ProductSuite".
Then reboot and open
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Lsa and change the
value of the key "forceguest" to "0".

Hi Littleant,

Thanks for your comments i will try this out and let you know the
result in couple of days.

Arun_p

Other method:
1. go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet00X/Control/ProductOptions
- where ControlSet00X is the one with the highest number - and delete
the key "ProductSuite" completely.
2. Instead of this key, create a new key named "Brand" of type "DWORD"
and set it's value to "0".
3. Reboot the system.
4. After BIOS-screen, press F8 and choose "Last Known Good
Configuration" (it can look a bit different - I don't surely remember
- by the meaning is this).

Hello Guy,

Looking in the page of the Microsoft always it well in gives
interesting answers to them, believes that these two articles go
sufficiently to help you:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;196271 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314053/

Best regards,

Leonardo Licks.

Hi Leo,

Thanks for your help,i think you have given the most definative
comment to suit my query.. Thanks again..

Arun.