how to change th max number of clients in Hosted Network

sufriadi

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Capture.JPG how to change the max cilents ?
 

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You can do it through the registry or in the Policy.
 

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You can do it through the registry or in the Policy.

Except that this would technically be a violation of the Windows EULA. The limitation is there to try and encourage people to buy the server editions of Windows.

The 100% legal and cheap method is to simply use some means other than SMB/CIFS to share files. FTP, AFS, NFS, HTTP, to name a few starting points that you can use on your own computer. Then there's also dropbox or even using a public bittorrent tracker and creating a torrent for whatever files you want to share.
 

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Incorrect asvent. There is no violation of the Eula, when a user or administrator makes changes through the registry or GPO. Also it is not to encourage people to purchase server editions.
 

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before max client = 100
after using MHotspot app it change to 10 :(

hhuuufftttt.....
That would be due to your hotspot only allows that max number of clients. The max you are only allowed under MS rules, is 20 clients.
 

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You can do it through the registry or in the Policy.

Except that this would technically be a violation of the Windows EULA. The limitation is there to try and encourage people to buy the server editions of Windows.


To begin with, Windows hosted network allows 100 clients by default:

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You didn't even bother to check this fact. In OP's case a third party app has changed the number.

The 100% legal and cheap method is to simply use some means other than SMB/CIFS to share files. FTP, AFS, NFS, HTTP, to name a few starting points that you can use on your own computer. Then there's also dropbox or even using a public bittorrent tracker and creating a torrent for whatever files you want to share.
What on earth does file sharing have to do with network and Internet access? The hosted network sharing is used to share the Internet connection.


Incorrect asvent. There is no violation of the Eula, when a user or administrator makes changes through the registry or GPO. Also it is not to encourage people to purchase server editions.
Exactly. If the max number of clients needs to be changed it is absolutely not a violation of Windows EULA.

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@Sufriadi, you could try to remove the hosted network, then recreate it, this should set the max clients value to default 100.
 

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@Sufriadi, you could try to remove the hosted network, then recreate it, this should set the max clients value to default 100.
You are correct on the 100 max clients. Digging through the Eula, MS states max 20 clients. Why, who knows with the lawyer that did not get the correct facts from Engineering.
 

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    Toshiba Satellite C850D-st3nx1
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    AMD E1-1200 APU with Radeon (tm) HD Graphics 1.40 GHZ
    Memory
    12GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMD Radeon™ HD 7310 Graphics
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1366 x 768
    Hard Drives
    Crucial M500 240GB SSD
    Mouse
    Logitech M525
    Internet Speed
    45/6 - ATT U-Verse
    Browser
    Google Chrome
    Antivirus
    None needed. It is Linux.
    Other Info
    Arris NVG589 Gateway; Router - Cisco RV320; Switch - Netgear GS108 8-Port Switch & Trendnet TEG-S50g 5-Port Switch; Access Points - Engenius ECB350, Trendnet TEW-638APB; NAS - Lenovo ix2-4; Printer - Brother HL-2280DW; Air Print Server - Lantronix XPrintServer

    A/V UPS - Tripp-Lite Smart 1500LCD 1500 Va/900 W.
@Sufriadi, you could try to remove the hosted network, then recreate it, this should set the max clients value to default 100.
You are correct on the 100 max clients. Digging through the Eula, MS states max 20 clients. Why, who knows with the lawyer that did not get the correct facts from Engineering.

In a large multi-national company, this sort of disconnect is really not that uncommon. I work for a large global company and while it didn't affect me, I know some people who were affected. The corporate office suspended access to a certain SAP function for maintenance, only they never bothered to tell anyone actually affected this was going to happen until they all started complaining. Then the corporate office says, "Oh yeah, we're completely done with that maintenance and won't be doing that again any time soon." So naturally about 2 days later the access gets pulled again with zero notice. Then they wanted us to stop making any changes in the system for a specific hour of the day while an automated process ran... Do they send out a notice to all employees saying if you have this or that access, please refrain from making changes during this hour? No, they send something out to the VPs and then they may or may not forward that on to some of their direct reports who may or may not forward it on to their direct reports. My department found out about it on late Thursday when they wanted to start on the following Monday and we passed word on to plenty of other people who had no idea.

Or you can even get more localized than that. Sometimes people get promoted to management positions who have no managerial skills at all. We've had one person pushing my department to rush a particular project because his manager is pushing him... They both know the thing was a steaming pile that got dumped on some people where this is their first major project, precisely because it was a steaming pile and anyone with enough seniority just played pass the buck. So the other day the first person sends this angry email to a director complaining about how they said this project would be done about 2 weeks ago and we mention something to the people actually working on the project and find out they hadn't heard a thing about that. So you have these two people who are pushing to get something done, but they don't even bother talking to the people, who work under them no less, that they dumped this project on. Or I was working on a sister project, so many of the same people involved... Needed some updated documentation to finish my part of things because some things slipped through that should have been caught before this project was approved. Better part of three weeks I've been hounding people for updated documentation and get total silence, until finally the other day someone says there's been some reprioritizing of projects and the person was temporarily reassigned to something else. It takes them 3 weeks to say that? And this is all at a company where there are a lot of people who've worked there for 10-20 years even.

A company the size of MS, where certain provisions of an EULA may not be enforceable from one state to the next within just the US, let alone having to contend with EU laws and the laws of each member nation and at the same time you have to meet certain marketing deadlines... Not surprising in the least.
 

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