XP Home and domains

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Stuart Errington

Hi,

Is it possible for XP Home to take part in a windows domain environment ?

Regards,

Stuart.
 
Yes, it will work.

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Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley
 
Is it possible for XP Home to take part in a windows domain environment ?

Stuart:

I use Home in a Win2k domain and in a Win2k3 domain.

It works very well, except for several impt limitations:
It cannot receive domain gp policy
It cannot query AD
It cannot be a domain member

Things that Home can do/use:
Be authenticated against a W2K/W2K3 Server for:
Normal NetBIOS networking
Non-NetBT networking (via port 445)
DHCP
Dynamic DNS
WINS
Remote Desktop (Win2k3 server)
Remote Assistance (Win2k3 server)
IIS for ftp server, http server, WebFolders
VPN
 
purple,

I thought it could login, but could not join the domain. Am I
confusing terms?

-- Bill
 
Well, you weren't entirely wrong. XP Home can authenticate to a domain, but
it can't really login to a domain as that would imply (at least to me) that
it would be capable or running login scripts and the such.

Just my two cents.

--
Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley
 
That's true. I'll have to find a good way to word it. Your explaination in
your other post was good.
 
XP Home can authenticate to a domain, but it can't really login to a
domain as that would imply (at least to me) that
it would be capable or running login scripts and the such.

Mike:

The bootup logon is authenticated locally, so Home user cannot utilize
domain logon services (login scripts, GPO, etc).
Per packet sniffing, when Home attempts to access a share on a domain
server, the server contacts a DC for authentication.
 
CZ said:
domain as that would imply (at least to me) that
it would be capable or running login scripts and the such.

Mike:

The bootup logon is authenticated locally, so Home user cannot utilize
domain logon services (login scripts, GPO, etc).
Per packet sniffing, when Home attempts to access a share on a domain
server, the server contacts a DC for authentication.
Click to expand...

That's what I was saying. The only way to run a logon script would be to do
so manually after you've logged into the XP Home system. Group Policies
would definately not work, but other services, file/print/exchange would be
available as the user would be automatically authenticated if the
username/password he/she uses on the home edition system matches a domain
username/password. It's tried and tested and works.

--
Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley
 
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