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Question

Windows Networking Issue

Apr 3, 2017 12:45PM PDT

i have setup 6 windows pcs and they all have the same exact hardware. I installed windows on one pc and set everything up then just made 5 clones. they are all booting perfectly, and everything works great. HOWEVER

(the users will be using guest accounts along side a administrator account which they WONT have the password to do administrative tasks)

all BUT two pcs are playing nice, THEY wont let any guest account access file shares, or let any connection through unless the program is ran from the administrator account and the guest account is logged out.

The two pcs that are problem can access each other as guest but not the other pcs, none of the settings were changed, they are all default windows 7 home premium, all settings are default and the ONLY software installed is the software that came on the deployment, nothing else could possibly be installed because only i know the administrator password. and ontop of that if a program isn't on the white list it wont be allowed to run and its the same across all the pcs. all the settings go back to the default every time the account is locked or logged out.

never had this problem before and just curious of what could be doing this, the only thing not the same in the two offending pcs is they have an extra larger disk ontop of the default oem disk.

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Sounds right. But why?
Apr 3, 2017 12:57PM PDT

Many versions of Windows limit share connections to just 5 connections. So right there, you have the wrong OS.

Windows Home 7 is indeed limited in this area.

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Apr 3, 2017 1:14PM PDT
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the problem is networking
Apr 3, 2017 1:08PM PDT

How do you have this all hooked up, routers, switches, etc?

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quick fix
Apr 3, 2017 4:33PM PDT

thank you for the replies, as far as the connection limit in limited versions of windows there is a software called tcp-z patches the limit to any value

and the fix was i narrowed it down to any account without a password (admin or guest) should not be allowed to connect to shares but in the case of the two pcs they were working normal, the glitch was on the other ones i thought were working and all the previous ones i fixed.. strange

but i can just put a password onto the guest accounts for now on ..and have them auto logon.

and this current set up is two tables three pcs each one switch and one modem