Re: Windows 2000 Server and XP Home Clients - Am I missing something??

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They've probably named the 'workgroup' the same as the domain.

XP Homes can't join a domain. Upgrade them to XP Pro for the control you need.

Paul Goldman wrote:
I made my first visit to a new client today. They have a network with a Windows 2000 Server with AD with a domain name of ARS. They have users and security groups defined in AD and File Shares with access controlled by those users and groups. "Everyone" has full access to all of the shares, but further down in the subdirectory tree rights are restricted to certain users and groups. So far so good. Here's the problem. All of their client PCs are running Windows XP Home edition, and are members of a workgroup, ARS. Since no one is logging into the domain, I can't figure out how certain users have rights to certain subdirectories on the file shares. I can see how they can map to drives, because of the full access for Everyone, but can't figure out how the server knows who is who to restrict access to the subdirectories. Can someone help me out? What am I missing??

Thanks. 


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