Re: XP Pro Vs XP Home clients....

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From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 07/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 06:38:44 -0400

Hi,

XP Home cannot join a domain, you'd need Pro for that. 

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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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"Fawke101" <guy@ANTIbradflack.SPAMcom> wrote in message
news:OPMSKa1XEHA.3012@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi there,
>
> I have several aquired PCs with XP Home licenses on them.
> We wish to add these to the domain in our organisation and have them logon
> to/via an SBS2000 PDC.
>
> We can setup individual accounts on the PCs themselves..... then if the
> credentials are the same as the user accounts on the server they can
access
> server resources....
> How can i set it up (in XP Home) so that it retrievs the user list from
the
> PDC so ANY user can logon to the machine, withour having to add 45+ users
to
> the local machine accounts?
> Is this possible in XP Home.....
>
> I also cannot seem to get it to run the SBS client logon scripts either
:-(
> Is an upgrade to XP Pro really neccessary?
>
> Thanks again ppl
>
> -- 
> Thanks in advance
>
> Fawke
>
> Please remove ANTI and SPAM
> from my email address before emailing me.
>
>
>

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