On 17/01/11 23:08, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 17/01/11 19:08, keithjamieson@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
I'm writing this under Mandriva. There I can run Windows XP as a guest and despite having multiple shares on the host machine, in XP it will only allow me to have one share to a NAS drive - there are 4 shares to that under Mandriva - so I'm wondering if it's a Windows limitation that's preventing me having two shares to the host machine. I realise that this isn't the place to ask Windows questions so I won't pursue that here.
Depends on the version of Windows XP - if it's Windows XP Home, then yes perhaps it's a limitation of Windows
The host with the problem is Windows 7 Home.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457127.aspx
"The following security features are not included with Windows XP Home Edition: [] Computer domain account support [] Administrative shares (available only when joined to a domain) [] Networking Features
Many networking features are identical in Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home Edition. The main differences involve connection limits and simplification. While Windows XP Professional allows up to 10 simultaneous file-sharing connections, Windows XP Home Edition allows up to five connections only.
If I look at the connections in 7, it only showed 1 as being active which puzzled me.
I have overcome the problem by sharing the paent folder from the 2 I wanted so even though I can only manage to access one folder, it will allow me to find the various files I need.
That's to everybody for their help.