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

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In addition possibly the username and passwords for the pcs match those of
the domain.


"Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <sbradcpa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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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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