XP Home and Domain

[JohnNews]

Folks:


I have a small home network consisting of windows 2000/2003 servers, XP
Professional Clients. I have two simple questions.

Recently I bought a Lap Top (XP Home Edition). The DISadvantage of the
Home Edition is that it works only at the WORKGROUP level and does not
support DOMAINS. Whenever I reboot my LapTop I have to be re-authenticated
(username & password) to use various resources on my network.

* Is there a way for me to configure my LapTop so that after rebooting I
can automatically access resources (Printers & Folders) on other
machines without having to manually authenticate myself with an Admin.
username &

* Is there a work-around to make XP HOME behave like XP PRO. I keep
hearing that Microsoft actually published a work around in the early
stages but later removed this document from its Knowledge Base.




Thanks,
John.in the

 

[Marc Reynolds [MSFT]]

There is no way to make XP Home behave like XP Pro inregards to domain
connectivity. Your best bet is to upgrade the laptop to XP Pro.

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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

The only "work-around" I'm aware of is to purchase and install
WinXP Pro Upgrade. There may, however, be a way to write a batch file
or script that runs upon login (iow, in the Startup folder) to remap
drives, etc, using the NET Use commands.

The syntax of this command is:

NET USE
[devicename | *] [\\computername\sharename[\volume] [password | *]]
[/USER:[domainname\]username]
[/USER:[dotted domain name\]username]
[/USER:[username@dotted domain name]
[/SMARTCARD]
[/SAVECRED]
[[/DELETE] | [/PERSISTENT:{YES | NO}]]

NET USE {devicename | *} [password | *] /HOME

NET USE [/PERSISTENT:{YES | NO}]


Bruce Chambers

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