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Authenticating with a Domain when not joined to the Domain
Unfortunately, we began having problems with the hardware on our 2003 PDC and we had to migrate to a new 2008 PDC. After the upgrade, the desktops were no longer able to connect to shares on the servers.
We searched the web and found several answers that we did not find favorable, basically, because we had upgraded to 2008 domain, the XP desktops could not longer connect to the servers using NTLM authentication. We looked at adding anonymous users to folder and printer shares on the server but I didn?t like that idea for security reasons.
After hours of searching, we decided to bite the bullet and just join everyone to the domain after all; I had been wanting to do that for a long time. The only thing that was stopping us was upper management didn't like the idea of I.T. being able to connect to their computers over the network (oh the ignorance!)
So we began the work 2 days ago and running through the trials and tribulations of having users who previously had full access to their machines now only had limited access. Then we came to our first XP Home machine! Oh crap, XP home cannot join a domain, so we decided to try the file and printer shares again. We couldn't believe what we found.
When we went to add a printer and used \\servername\ ,the list of printers would show up. This is not working on the XP Pro desktops. Additionally, if we use the run option and enter \\ServerName\ ,the list of file shares will show up. Again, this does not work on the XP Pro desktops. We went to a couple of other XP HOME machines and found the situation got even weirder. All of them can list printer shares, but only some of them can list file shares. As far as their active directory user accounts goes, are all members of the same security groups and all are members of the same OU's with the same group policy permissions (not hat GP would be applicable if they aren't actually joined to the domain).
Can anybody tell me what might be happening here. I am happy we're finally getting on a domain but I am in deep poop if it is discovered that XP Home could continue to work as normal when I am telling management that they need to spend money to upgrade some PC's to Pro.
Thanks