Win98 workgroup
I feel kinda silly asking THIS in THIS forum, since i don't use Win9x based systems, but whatever, just for general culture, what's the limit of pc's that i can connect to a workgroup based on win98?, and i mean without a dedicated server or any NT OS; just a group of pc's connected to a HUB or a Switch.
I feel kinda silly asking THIS in THIS forum, since i don't use Win9x based systems, but whatever, just for general culture, what's the limit of pc's that i can connect to a workgroup based on win98?, and i mean without a dedicated server or any NT OS; just a group of pc's connected to a HUB or a Switch.....if there's a limit, what is it?
Thanks in advanced.
Thanks in advanced.
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Ummm depends on what limit you are talking about?
If its the amount of TCPIP connections to a machine ... its 256.
Windows 98:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP
Add/change the value:
MaxConnections=100 to 256
The maximum number of machines in a workgroup is limited to a list that can only be 64k in length. So it will not show all the entries for a very large workgroup.
Physically ... the number of ports on a switch
If its the amount of TCPIP connections to a machine ... its 256.
Windows 98:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP
Add/change the value:
MaxConnections=100 to 256
The maximum number of machines in a workgroup is limited to a list that can only be 64k in length. So it will not show all the entries for a very large workgroup.
Physically ... the number of ports on a switch
I am tring to remember from my NT cert exam. I think they said 10 but not sure. I do know that after so many the netbios broadcast gets too much.
SMB connections are limited to 10 for all client OSes.
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