Win98 workgroup

[el_vago32 0]

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.

[DS3Circuit 0]

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

[Silver-Dagger 0]

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.

[DS3Circuit 0]

SMB connections are limited to 10 for all client OSes.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.asp...;NoWebContent=1

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.asp...;NoWebContent=1

 

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/733/