Windows 7 share limits

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Plans and Pricing. Contact Us. Certified Expert Program. Credly Partnership. However, with the shared folder being on a windows 7 machine, there is a hardcoded limit to concurrent connections to the computer, which in windows 7 is Get a proper file server or NAS or cloud, if you are going to be sharing files like that, using a desktop for that amount of users won't work well. As others have said its the Windows desktop OS connection limit.

If you reboot the connection counter will be reset, but with that many users you will quickly exceed it again. Is there a reason why you are not using an actual server OS? When I started out, the limit was 10 sessions to connect to a workstation OS. Now it is 20, and you're feeling the pain of trying to use a workstation OS when a server OS is what is appropriate.

The desktop motherboard and OS design is different than the server motherboard and OS design. The desktop is designed to do the work on the hosts CPU; whereas, the server is designed to move information in and out from the HD in and out the NIC.

Thank you all for the quick response. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Thank you. Best Answer. DreR7 This person is a verified professional. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. Hi There, this is no limit to the amount of users you can configure to access a folder, IE you can add, share and NTFS permissions for 1,, users, this will not prevent any of those users accessing it The Windows 7 computer is the limitation View this "Best Answer" in the replies below ».

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