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

Hi Paul,

Pcs could be in a different 'workgroup ' and they would still get on the
server if they knew / have a domain username and password. Being in the same
workgroup helps browsing in network places.

The pcs I assume are all in the same IP range (you could have them in a
different IP range and with some tweaking get them to the server). They are
now talking on TCP. If they require a server resource it will prompt for a
valid Domain username and password. Initially they will be trying to
authenticate by computername\username which wouldn't be allowed. When you
change the prompt to domain\username and password you do get the option to
save password.

Not being in the domain does cause this problem that there maybe regular
prompts for username and password because the pcs are transmitting
computername\username which of course are not authorised.

Being in the domain does help maintenance of the site and saves alot of
issues, internet access is one area that can cause issues as they are not '
ISA firewall clients ' per say and may find some sites / internet usuage
doesn't work properly. Unsure if putting the firewall client would solve any
issues as do not have any XP home in a domain..lol

Finally, this is the Small Business Server newsgroup, more specifically 2003
and you mention just Server 2000, SBS2000 is in a different NG, our
configurations are slightly different to plain 2000 server and if you have
plain 2K my mention of ISA may confuse you...lol







"Paul Goldman" <paulgoldman1948@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:jJjmf.1894$pE4.527@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I understand that they named the workgroup the same as the domain. Isn't a
>workgroup named X and a domain named X 2 different entirely different
>things even though they are one the same network?
>
> I am also faced with the fact that the owner does not want to spring for
> the expense of upgrading everyone to XP Pro and joining the domain.
>
> My question is if you have an XP Home machine with a userid/password of
> someone that is in a domain, does the domain controller know that this is
> the same user? I didn't think that was possible.
>
> "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <sbradcpa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote in message news:u10FdhI$FHA.272@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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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