[dba-Tech] WinXP Home Edition and NT4 domains

For those whom use it.

WinXP Home does not include a Terminal server License altough the
software is present.
After using TS Client from WinXP home, the TS Client reports the demo is
over and you need to contact your administrator (me in this case).

Purchase of 5 user packages is needed to allow WinXP home (all W9X) on a
Terminal server.

Erwin

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William
Hindman
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 10:22 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] WinXP Home Edition and NT4 domains

"William will hate this" gustav

...true ...William hates anything that unnecessarily complicates his
life and that of his client's users :)

...as for John's question, WinXP Home is just a code crippled version of
XP Pro ...i.e., the features are there but MS has just blocked basic
user access to them ...fortunately, there are literally dozens of easy
work-arounds to allow domain logon from a WinXP Home system ...for
instance, you can use the Xteq X-Setup's Network Auto Login feature to
navigate to the 'Network \ Auto Login \ Windows NT/2K/XP \ Settings'
option and enter the User Name, Password, and Domain ...Xteq is imnsho
the best of the freeware Windows "tweaking" utilities ...HTH :)

William Hindman
Government is not reason, government is not persuasion, government is
force. It is a dangerous servant." G. Washington

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:57 AM
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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