Re: XP Home Edition

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From: planty (REMOVEjason_at_REMOVETHISjasonplantANDTHIS.com)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:07:17 +0000

>XP Home is not very network friendly. With that said, I don't believe
>(somebody correct me if I am wrong) that changing the user name in XP Home
>really changes a lot (like in Win2k or WinXP). The default user is 'Owner'
>for XP Home, and I'll bet if you make sure that account is named as such in
>XP Home and setup that same user ID on your domain (with the passwords being
>the same), your drive mapping should work fine via pass-through
>authentication. Give that a try and post back your results.
>

That will work, I had an XP home machine with two users set up in such
a way.

That said though, I ditched it and went XP Pro as My Documents
redirect, roaming profiles etc etc make it much easier to manage.

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