How to log on to network?

[Ron Campbell]

Upgraded 1 client on our NT network from W98 to XP. Under
W98, the computer would prompt for network user name and
password each time it booted. It no longer does this
under XP; in fact I cannot figure out how to log on to the
network at all. Of course there's no user manual, and I
could find nothing in the help file. Phoned Microsoft on
their toll number, spent an hour talking to someone who
knew less than I did, then was transferred to someone who
told me that this was nothing to do with XP, so could not
be used as one of my two free tech incidents. Said he
knew the answer, but wanted $250 to tell me.

Anyone willing to tell me this huge secret will earn my
great appreciation.

 

[Michael D. Alligood]

Is it Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional. I ask this because Windows
XP Home does not have access to long on to a domain.

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Best of luck!

Michael D. Alligood
MCSA, MCP, CCNA, A+,
Network+, i-Net+, CIW A, CIW CI

 

[Keith]

XP Home machines don't join the domain but they actually
can access domain resources. On the XP Home machine, just
use the same login name and password as a user on the
domain. Use the domain name as the workgroup name. When
you login on the XP Home machine you'll have whatever
access that user has on the domain servers. XP Home won't
run domain login scripts since it isn't actually logging
in to the server, so you'll have to map drives locally if
you want drives mapped to the server. But, you can use XP
Home machines with a domain.

 

[Ron Campbell]

-----Original Message-----
XP Home machines don't join the domain but they actually
can access domain resources. On the XP Home machine, just
use the same login name and password as a user on the
domain. Use the domain name as the workgroup name.

Yeah, but how? Where do I input my user name, domain name
and password? This machine never asks for them, and I can
find no place to input them.
- Ron C

 

[Keith]

Go to Control Pannel then User Accounts. You can add a
password to the current account so it will prompt for it
when you boot. And you can add additional users there.
If you can't get to it from the user you are currently
logged in as, you can start in safe mode to access the
administrator account. Just press the F8 key just as you
here the post beep as the computer boots. It will give
you a menu to let you select safe mode. Once logged in as
administrator, go to User Accounts and setup your users
and passwords.

 

[Ron Campbell]

Wow, I thought this was gonna be easy; obviously I was way
wrong.

OK Keith, I've tried what you suggested, still no joy.
Seems like Control Panel/User Accounts only affects
logging on to Windows itself, NOT logging on to the
network. I cannot make it prompt for the domain name,
which I think I need, to get on the network, no?

When you say "log on as administrator" do you mean as the
domain administrator? I tried that, it won't accept that
user name/password.

 

[Keith]

The first step is to answer the question asked earlier. Is
this XP Pro or XP Home. If XP Home, as stated earlier,
you can't join a domain and you will never get a domain
name prompt. But you can access domain resources if you
use the same username and password as a domain user
account. Let us know what version of XP you have and we
can go from there.

 

[Ron Campbell]

Sorry. It's Windows XP Home Edition.

 

[Michael D. Alligood]

I think everything you need to know can be found here...

http://www.wown.com/articles_tutorials/wxphdoms.html

Hope that helps!

--
Best of luck!

Michael D. Alligood
MCSA, MCP, CCNA, A+,
Network+, i-Net+, CIW A, CIW CI

 

[Ron Campbell]

No, I'm afraid that didn't work either. Guess I'm giving
up. The only frustrating thing is that I did have it
working before (with Win XP Home), but lost my setup when
my hard drive went south. Oh well.

Thank you so much to all who tried to help me.