XP Home and Domains 1

[Meldrew]

Help please
Have installed Xteq Xsetup6.1 to try and connect XP Home to a Domain. But no success - is there something I am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

Meldrew

 

[Psychoid]

Meldrew,
One of the reasons that it's called "home" is because it can't join a domain. They did this on purpose so people would have to upgrade to "professional." If you just need to share files/printers at home, though, just set up a workgroup and the "home" version will work fine.

Regards,
bill ------------
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[Scotsdude]

Meldrew,

Bill's spot on - XP Home will not join a domain. However, you CAN connect to drive mappings, strangely enough.

If all you want to do is allow an XP Home user access to shared files and folders on the network, you can trick the XP Home computer into giving you access.

Log in to XP Home using a local computer account that doesn't have a password.
Open the My Computer object, click the Tools menu, and then click Map Network Drive.
Select a folder on your network by clicking on the Browse button.
After selecting the folder, click on the different user name link on the page.
In the Connect As dialog box, for user name enter domainxxx\user (where domainxxx is the domain you want to connect to). Enter your domain user password and then click OK.
Check the Reconnect at login box and press Finish.
When you boot up in the morning, go to My Computer and double click on the networked drive. This causes XP to send the credentials to the Domain and opens the drive.
Now you will be able to access files and folders throughout the domain without having to reenter network credentials (user name and password).
Taken from www.winxpnews.com

Scotsdude
Sanity is my ultimate goal, and its slipping further away....

 

[Psychoid]

Good call, Scott.
You can also synch your local credentials with the domain ones and then you won't have to enter any passwords. ------------
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[nelljack]

RE the above setup, can someone, say the person who installed the XP OS, set this up and use it to get on your computer while you are on the internet to screw with your files? I'm new to XP and this sharing files stuff.