Can I network Windows Vista Home Premium onto a Workgroup network?

[Guest]

I have a new computer with Windows Vista Home Premium on it. We also have a
wireless office network secured with Mac Filtering. All the other computers
in the office are Windows XP pro. Can my new Vista Home Premium computer be
networked into this environment so that it can share files and also see other
computers and their files and attached resources?

 

[koze]

If you don't use a real server in the office then "Yes" You can.
If there is a server the answer is no Home versions cannot access a domain.
Ko.

 

[koze]

PS: I forgot the link to the info:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx

Ko.

 

[Guest]

thanks very much

If you don't use a real server in the office then "Yes" You can.
If there is a server the answer is no Home versions cannot access a domain.
Ko.

 

[Chuck]

If you don't use a real server in the office then "Yes" You can.
If there is a server the answer is no Home versions cannot access a domain.
Ko.

It's not quite that cut and dried. You can access a server from VHP, just not
as a domain member. Every Windows computer can be a server, whether its running
Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003, or Vista. Every Windows computer can be a client to
a server too.

VHP can't join a domain, but it can access a server, as long as you have a local
account setup on the server for network access.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#DomainClient>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#DomainClient