Re: Accessing SBS 2003 Shares with XP Home

You are using a process known as Pass Through Authentication or you are
specifying domain credentials, I cannot be bothered reading earlier parts to
confirm which. The XP Home PC is not participating in the domain.

PTA (note how close it is to PITA :) is where a 'local' account on a system
has same user/pass as are expected on the remote system. The UserID is
actually different but the credentials are accepted because 'name' and
'password' match. Both domain and 'local' accounts actually have more than
this information, you see, a 'user' isn't just a 'user', they are a
'domain\user' (whether the PC is in workgroup or domain mode). When a PC is
in workgroup mode the 'domain' portion of 'domain\user' is 'PCName' (the
name of the PC the user account is held on).

No-one is giving you 'the easy textbook answer', they are stating a fact. XP
Home cannot participate in a domain. If you want to realise the full
benefits of SBS (which start with Domain based security, the rest is
'fluff') you _must_ use Windows 2000, XP Pro or Windows 2003 Server based
machines. (NT4, both workstation and server, _can_ participate in an SBS2003
domain but it is unsupported, as it should be)

Non Windows OS's have better integration to SBS than XP Home does.

"CDP" <pitmancd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If it were true that an XP home machine cannot participate in a domain,
then why can I connect to shares with one of the Admin accounts?



Upgrading the machine is not an option. This is the easy textbook answer
that everyone wants to throw out there.



Isn't there anyone out there that likes a challenge?



"Cris Hanna[SBS-MVP]" <crisnospamhanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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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