[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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