how many people can share a Public File?

How many people can share a Public File?

Far from being a rhetorical question, I’m simply looking for an answer to solve my current dillemma.

We have a small company ( 12 people ) , all mac osX Panther users ( upgrading soon to Tiger ) and we use a Public Folder on our iMac G5 to share information over our network. Works fine, sometimes theres a bit of file corruption on lesser documents ( Word, Excel ) but bar that, no real problem. We looked at purchasing a server and mac server osx but for the amount of work thats shared over our network…

Three new people are after starting in the office and now, its giving me the "too many people logged on to shared file" message, which can be quite ennoying.

Whats the best solution? Does Tiger allow more people to share a file? Or will we have to move on to OsX server just to share 2GB of info?

Please get back to me people at AFP you seem to know your stuff, I’m just plain confused.

Thanks,

Vincent Naughton