Networking Windows XP home with a Windows NT 4.0 server

[John Kuhnel]

I am installing a 10 computer network for a Church. They
have purchased 10 computers from dell and have decided to
stay with home edition instead of upgrading to pro. The
windows NT server was donated to the church. How can you
condfigure this to share resources? Can you use the full
functions of the NT server? Any information would help me
out.

John

 

[Nicholas]

John --

Only Windows XP Professional has the advanced networking
capabilities required to join a domain.

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Nicholas

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| I am installing a 10 computer network for a Church. They
| have purchased 10 computers from dell and have decided to
| stay with home edition instead of upgrading to pro. The
| windows NT server was donated to the church. How can you
| condfigure this to share resources? Can you use the full
| functions of the NT server? Any information would help me
| out.
|
| John

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

To have a network with computers running WindowXP Home and
WindowsXP Pro you need the NetBEUI network protocall
installed on all the computers running WinXP, once
installed you will be able to see other computers on your
home or office network, you can then share files, upload
and download files, delete files on there computers on
your network.

NOTE: NetBEUI is a extreamly low securtiy protocal and is
a temparay solution for networking computers because it
has NO security AT ALL, and Microsoft does not support
NetBEUI anymore. If you decide to install NetBEUI I
recommend connecting them to a ROUTER with a firewall
enabled on the router.

Once the NetBEUI driver is installed you must restart your
computer, then open network connection properties and
use "Install..." button to add NetBEUI protocol. Restart
your computer again and your set. Download NetBEUI below.

http://www.lvcm.com/cyberthug/netbeui/NetBEUIxp.exe

This is a WinRAR self extracting file that i created that
will install the NetBEUI drivers correctly into your
C:\windows\ folder ( some winXP windows folders are
C:\WINNT\ ) make sure you point the install to your
Windows system folder, if you donot trust this .EXE file I
created to make things simple then you can just change the
extention from .exe to .rar and use WinRAR to install
these drivers into YOUR windows folder.

This is completely incorrect. Nothing in Windows networking requires,
or has ever required, NetBEUI.

Microsoft doesn't make Windows files available for downloading, and it
doesn't allow ordinary folks like us to make them available, either.

It's an unfortunate fact of life, "Rct. Tsoul", that a common way for
people's computers to get viruses is by running programs like the one
that you're offering for download. Even though you're probably a
fine, helpful person, I strongly recommend that no one download or run
that file.
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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