XP Home Edition to connect on a domain?

hi to all firewallcx-eans,

how can i connect a XP Home Edition to a domain? or
is there a tweak?

tnx in advanced

Windows XP Home edition is not designed to connect to a domain environment. Microsoft crippled Windows XP Home edition to force users to go for the more expensive Windows XP Pro version to have these extra functions. Researching on the net, there is a free software tool called Xteq X-Setup 6.1 that puts this functionality back.

vowe.net/archives/001639.html

This link above (if you look at the second paragraph down) also states that you can connect to your file servers by simply mapping a drive and selecting re-connect. Once you have entered the username and password, Windows XP will re-send this set of credentials whenever you connect to another share on that server.

Hope it helps

Wayne

nice post smurf...thanks for the info..

tnx smurf, i'll try it.

GCS support boundaries for Windows XP: Domains and security
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SUMMARY
This article describes the Microsoft Windows XP Consumer Support Organization (CSO) support boundaries with relation to domains.

For more information about all the topics that are discussed in this series of Support Boundary articles, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
310052 CSO support boundaries for Windows XP: Table of contents and supportability clarification
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Windows XP Home Edition cannot participate in a domain infrastructure. It can participate only in a Workgroup infrastructure. Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, and Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 can participate in a domain infrastructure or in a workgroup infrastructure.

Note Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 can join a domain only if it is upgraded from a Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 installation that is joined to a domain.

A technician diagnoses problem as being a domain-related or as being a computer-related. If the problem domain-related, the user must contact a network administrator. Alternatively, a customer representative must create PRO incident.

If the technician diagnoses the problem as being domain-related, we recommend that the user remove the computer from the domain and join it to a workgroup. If this does not resolve the problem, but the technician still believes that the problem is domain-related, the user must contact the network administrator. Alternatively, a customer representative must create PRO incident.
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The information in this article applies to:
• Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
• Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

Yup thats true we cannot join Windows XP home editon and Windows Media Centre Editons to a domain environment