Re: Windows XP Home Accessing Shared Folders on SBS
- From: setnaffa@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 13 Jan 2006 11:01:57 -0800
Congratulations. You have discovered the difference between XP Pro and
XP Home. The only supported way to fix this is to upgrade the XP Home
systems. Period.
User16/6/81 wrote:
> I am having problems accessing shared folders on a Windows SBS 2003 from a
> Windows XP Home box. A particular folder when shared with "Everyone"
> permission is accessibe without authentication from a Windows XP Home
> machine--even with the GUest account disabled on the server. But when that
> folder is later shared with "Domain User" permission it becomes
> inaccessible--without an authentication prompt. Why is not the
> authentication prompt appearing to access this particular shared folder? All
> I get is: Access denied, with a bang. But the prompt appears when accessing
> c$ on the server from the Windows XP Home Machine.
>
> I want to ensure that only users that have domain user accounts on the
> domain can access folders on the server. But not everyone in the company
> uses Windows XP Pro workstation. Some, who also have domain user accounts,
> use XP Home, which is unable to log on to a domain.
>
> Thanks
.
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