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Hi Guys,
Any advice would be appreciated!

We are a small business running on 14 computers; we deal with a big number of data that we cannot afford to loose. We never had a serious backup procedure….

We decided to proceed on getting a file server for the whole office where from now on we could map a network drive on every computer where the user would store all the information there and therefore access it via the server at all times.

This way we could proceed on backing up the server every once in a while + have a RAID 1 (MIRROR) in case of any hardware failure.


For the system, I have an ATHLON XP 64 5200+, 2GB OF RAM and the 2 x 500GB SEAGATE hard drives MIRRORED (RAID1).

Now the question remains in the file server setup. I have tried running everything via WINDOWS XP PRO…It was great… had all the user options, folder permissions…it was exactly what we we’re expecting for….

However noticed later that it only supports 10 concurrent connections…. Therefore we always had the rest of the people from the office getting an error saying: the server has reached its max number of users…

Now, question is…. What do we do? I have a new copy of WINDOWS 2003 SERVER ENTREPRISE…. Does this operating system as well have concurrent connection limits? How would that work?

ANY HELP AND ADVICE WOULD BE APPRECIATED!


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