[dba-Tech] WinXP Home Edition and NT4 domains

John W. Colby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Jan 24 08:40:47 CST 2004


What troubles?  I run a peer to peer at my home office with no problems that
I'm aware of.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:58 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] WinXP Home Edition and NT4 domains


Hi Stuart and John

>> I know that WinXP Home Edition cannot be used to logon to an Active
>> Directory domain but can Home Edition be used to logon to an NT4 domain?
>>
>> I would think it could since W95/98/ME can but who knows what MS does
until
>> you ask.
>>
> No it can't. I've had several systems where local suppliers have sold
> laptops with XP Home to people who needed to connect  to  corporate
> networks running NT4 domain controllers.   I've upgraded  them all to
> W2kPro.

> XP Home, doesn't understand domains at all - it can only network in a
> peer to peer workgroup.

William will hate this ... but that statement is too restrictive.
Using the Novell Client, XP Home logs perfectly well into a NetWare
network.
And as you can obtain a 5-user license for NetWare Small Business for
near the media cost only, why bother with all the troubles of
peer-to-peer networking?

/gustav

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