Intermintent Windows 98 & Windows XP Network

We have 10 computers networked together with hubs and a
router. We use simple file sharing off of one computer.
One computer has Windows XP Professional, other 9 have
Windows 98.
Windows 98 computers have a mapped drive to a shared
folder on Windows XP. All computers open files off of the
Windows Xp machine.
Network and file sharing works fine, but once in a while
the network will crash. All windows 98 machines lose
connection to the network, but the windows xp machine can
still access the network and all other computers.
The only way to resolve this problem is to reboot the
Windows XP machine.

Is there a maximum number of files that can be opend off
of the windows xp machine ?

Thanks,
Chris

Windows XP (Professional) allows only ten simultaneous network connections.
If you have one Windows 98 computer connecting to one shared folder and one
shared printer, that's two connections out of the ten allowed. If your
Windows XP is the Home Edition the number is much lower, I believe five
maximum connections.

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"Chris" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:216401c3e070$4cdd33f0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> We have 10 computers networked together with hubs and a
> router. We use simple file sharing off of one computer.
> One computer has Windows XP Professional, other 9 have
> Windows 98.
> Windows 98 computers have a mapped drive to a shared
> folder on Windows XP. All computers open files off of the
> Windows Xp machine.
> Network and file sharing works fine, but once in a while
> the network will crash. All windows 98 machines lose
> connection to the network, but the windows xp machine can
> still access the network and all other computers.
> The only way to resolve this problem is to reboot the
> Windows XP machine.
>
> Is there a maximum number of files that can be opend off
> of the windows xp machine ?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris