Re: Accessing SBS 2003 Shares with XP Home

Yes, I know there is no domain setting in XP Home. That is a given textbook
answer. I'm looking for a workaround.



"Steve" <newsgroup@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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...and as a result there is no workgroup/domain setting available.

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An XP home machine cannot directly participate in a domain...upgrade the
machine

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"CDP" <pitmancd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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From an XP Home PC, I can access shares on a SBS 2003 server by
"connecting using a different user name" and using the corresponding
username/password of the Admin account that was assigned to that share.
Note that this Admin account is the same Admin account that was
originally set up upon first installing SBS 2003.

However, if I set up a regular User account or even a new Admin account
on the server and make corresponding shares, I cannot access any of
these shares from XP Home using the same method as previously described.

As a side note, I don't have any issues connecting to shares with any of
these accounts when logged in through an XP Home VPN.

1. How can I connect to SBS 2003 user shares from XP Home with a
regular User account? Are there any configuration changes that can be
made to policies, group settings, user settings, etc.?

2. Why can I connect to the "original Admin" shares and not to any "new
Admin" shares from XP Home? What is the difference in this scenario?

3. Does SBS 2003 have a "simple file sharing" option similar to that
found in XP Pro?

4. What effect would changing the WORKGROUP name of the XP Home PC to
match the DOMAIN name of the server? I read somewhere that this may
help some issues, but it was unclear as to what it might help.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.








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