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 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com