Re: Windows XP Home Accessing Shared Folders on SBS

Why doesn't everyone in the company use XP Pro? Home means what it says and
even though there may be some authentication workarounds you may grow old
faster than you want trying to keep those boxes happy in a domain
environment.

<setnaffa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1137178917.029961.284750@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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