XP Pro Vs XP Home clients....

[Fawke101]

Hi there,

I have several aquired PCs with XP Home licenses on them.
We wish to add these to the domain in our organisation and have them logon
to/via an SBS2000 PDC.

We can setup individual accounts on the PCs themselves..... then if the
credentials are the same as the user accounts on the server they can access
server resources....
How can i set it up (in XP Home) so that it retrievs the user list from the
PDC so ANY user can logon to the machine, withour having to add 45+ users to
the local machine accounts?
Is this possible in XP Home.....

I also cannot seem to get it to run the SBS client logon scripts either :-(
Is an upgrade to XP Pro really neccessary?

Thanks again ppl

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Fawke

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[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

XP Home cannot join a domain, you'd need Pro for that.

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[Fawke101]

So just to clarify, to have the SBS Logon client scripts active, and the
"Domain" login (IE the domain controller validates, rather than the PC
itself) you need XP Pro?

Thx

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[CZ]

So just to clarify, to have the SBS Logon client scripts active, and the
"Domain" login (IE the domain controller validates, rather than the PC
itself) you need XP Pro?

Fawke:

Correct.

To run a domain login script, the ws must be authenticated during bootup by
a DC, which XP Home cannot do.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

WinXP Home is not designed to, nor can it truly be made to, join a
WinNT, Win2K or Win2K3 domain.

Windows XP Comparison Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp

Which Edition Is Right for You
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp

However, domain resources, such as shared folders on the servers,
or printers, can be manually accessed by properly authenticated users
on WinXP Home machines.


Bruce Chambers
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[Fawke101]

Thanks for the clarification, much appreciated....

What great job you ppl do!

Thanks again......

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[Steve N.]

Greetings --

WinXP Home is not designed to, nor can it truly be made to, join a
WinNT, Win2K or Win2K3 domain.

Windows XP Comparison Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp

Which Edition Is Right for You
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp

However, domain resources, such as shared folders on the servers,
or printers, can be manually accessed by properly authenticated users
on WinXP Home machines.


Bruce Chambers

XP Home also cannot connect to Netware servers.

Steve

 

[Fawke101]

Ok thanx for that......

1 more question - ;-)

I want to upgrade from XP home to XP Pro - Do i have to go down the same
route as upgrading from a previous version of Windows (IE £123 to upgrade
from 9x/2000/Me/NT etc), or is there a seperate (importantly cheaper)
package to upgrade from Home to Pro??)

Thanks again

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Fawke

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[Ken Blake, MVP]

In

Ok thanx for that......

1 more question - ;-)

I want to upgrade from XP home to XP Pro - Do i have to go down the
same route as upgrading from a previous version of Windows (IE £123
to upgrade from 9x/2000/Me/NT etc), or is there a seperate
(importantly cheaper) package to upgrade from Home to Pro??)

There is no special version to go from XP Home to Professional.
You need the regular Upgrade version.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

You're welcome. And thanks for the kind words.

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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Actually, if you were to install Novell's IntranetWare Client32
4.83 or above, it will. This configuration isn't supported by Novell,
but it does work; I've done it in a test lab connecting to NetWare 5 &
NetWare 6 servers.

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[Steve N.]

Greetings --

Actually, if you were to install Novell's IntranetWare Client32
4.83 or above, it will. This configuration isn't supported by Novell,
but it does work; I've done it in a test lab connecting to NetWare 5 &
NetWare 6 servers.

Bruce Chambers

Lucky you, then. The one XP Home PC we tried this with connected a total
of ONE time and never again. I was surprised it connected at all to be
honest. BTW, the same unsupported situation applies to WinME as well,
but we have no problems with a couple of WinME machines on our network.
I've also read in Novell support forums that in ME and XP Home in order
for the Novell client to work you have to have DUN installed first.
since we don't have to deal with it I have not looked into that personally.

Steve