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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Wanted some thoughts on this if you would. We need a fileserver here at work. Pretty simple. However, I have a few concerns. Windows XP Pro will only allow 10 connections. Not good since there are probably 20 - 30 people that will be accessing this computer all day long. If I use Linux the authentication might be a problem. We use Active Directory here and the passwords need to change about every month or so. The last time that I set up a Linux fileserver, I made the username and password the same as their windows logon so that the mapped drive loaded automatically. These guys are not going to want to be bothered with putting in a new username and password to get to their files. Ever since we got our new domain controller, people have complained. They took away mapping of network drives which I had to fix with a little vb script that runs on their local machiens. So...does anyone have any suggestion as to what I can use or a way to set up a file server? I have the box and a 300gig drive along with a backup system. But am having some issues. Right now it is running Windows XP and every once in a while, a user will get the "No more connections can be made to this remote computer" Which causes panic to the end users. Thanks in advance for any and all ideas. Later, C:\ Loading...
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