Re: SBS 2003 & XP Home

From: Frank McCallister (anonymous)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:55:59 -0500

Hi E

Did you say you installed SBS 2003 without making it a Domain controller?

Frank McCallister
COMPUMAC
"-E-" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:25b701c4702a$e308d240$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Owen, I see that everyone has told you the "right" way to
> do it. However, I have had a client install it, and use it
> with XP Home. As the others pointed out, Home edition
> doesn't work with a domain. However, what my client did
> was just not install Directory Services, created all the
> user accounts, and we just put the same passwords that
> they had on their personal computers already. This worked
> beautifully for them (they are a small office, only 6-7
> people), as we got everyone together, agreed on our
> mapping scheme (ok everyone, H: will go to the HOME share,
> S: will go to the S: share), and I manually added each
> mapping to each user. Yes, this is not the most optimal,
> and requires a little more legwork, but, it saved them
> from a bunch of upgrades for now. If the company grows
> further, they can then make the switch to PRO, and we can
> add a DS domain and do it the "right" way then.
>
> -E-
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Is it true that you can't use XP Home with SBS 2003?
>>
>>Will I have to upgrade all my desktops to XP Pro in order
>>to integrate a new server running SBS 2003?
>>
>>Puzzled - O:)
>>.
>>

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