widows xp home edition

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is windows xp home edition networkable like widows xp professional?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

By design, Windows XP Home cannot join a domain.
You can only connect to domain resources.

Why Windows XP Professional is Best for Domain-Based Networks
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/overviews/joindommore.mspx

How to connect to network resources in Windows XP without mapping a drive or a port
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311079

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[Ken Blake]

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is windows xp home edition networkable like widows xp
professional?

There are two kinds of networks:

1. Work groups, the typical peer-to-peer networks that most home
users and some small business use. These provide file and printer
sharing as well as the ability to share an internet connection.

2. Domains, which are mostly used in large companies,
universities, etc. In a domain, you connect to a central server.

To join a domain, XP Professional is required; XP Home won't do
this. But for the ordinary workgroup networking, XP Professional
and Home work identically. My home network, a workgroup, consists
of two XP Home machines and one XP Professional..