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

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 07/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 07:03:54 -0600

Greetings --

    WinXP Home is not designed to, nor can it truly be made to, join a
WinNT, Win2K or Win2K3 domain.

Windows XP Comparison Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp

Which Edition Is Right for You
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp

    However, domain resources, such as shared folders on the servers,
or printers, can be manually accessed by properly authenticated users
on WinXP Home machines.

Bruce Chambers 

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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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