Xp Home and 2000 Server

[Guest]

Well I thing I have figured out that XP Home Edition is not meant to run in a Domain. First there is no option that I can find to join a domain, only a workgroup. And it is not a good idea to run 2000 server on a network with XP Home. I think that XP adds features of ICS, and you should never run ICS on a server if you plan to ever use NAT.

 

[Test Man]

Well that's why it's called XP Home. If you want the full features that's
comparable to Windows 2000 Professional (e.g. full file sharing, domain
logging on and disk quotas) then you need to buy Windows XP Profesional.

Well I thing I have figured out that XP Home Edition is not meant to run

in a Domain. First there is no option that I can find to join a domain,
only a workgroup. And it is not a good idea to run 2000 server on a network
with XP Home. I think that XP adds features of ICS, and you should never run
ICS on a server if you plan to ever use NAT.

 

[Mike Kolitz]

Correct. XP Home is not designed to participate in a domain environment.
If you want to make your computer a member of the domain, you'll need to use
XP Professional.

--
Mike Kolitz MCSE 2000
MS-MVP - Windows Setup and Deployment

Well I thing I have figured out that XP Home Edition is not meant to run

in a Domain. First there is no option that I can find to join a domain,
only a workgroup. And it is not a good idea to run 2000 server on a network
with XP Home. I think that XP adds features of ICS, and you should never run
ICS on a server if you plan to ever use NAT.

 

[CZ]

Well I thing I have figured out that XP Home Edition is not meant to run
in a Domain. First there is no option that I can find to join a domain,
only a workgroup. And it is not a good idea to run 2000 server on a network
with XP Home. I think that XP adds features of ICS, and you should never run
ICS on a server if you plan to ever use NAT.

Bobby:

XP Home works fine in a domain, except that it cannot login to the domain
nor can it receive domain GPO.
It can use most domain services including Exchange server 2000.

Several hours ago I was using XP Home to test some aspects of SBS2k3 with
ISA's publishing rules.

If you are using roaming user profiles and folder redirection in your
domains, XP Home is fantastic as it can be used to quickly go between
domains since it cannot do RUP or FR.

Home is a very useful tool for some domain work.