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hooking up to a 2000 based network

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by davidr Dec 21, 2002 last reply Jan 22, 2003 1 view

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I have heard that windows XP home will not work on a 2000 based network and have been unable to make it work with my home network running a 2k server as a domain controller. Howerver, at my brother's law office his pc tech was able to make xp home hook up to that 2k based network without a domain controller. Is this because of Active Directory or am I missing some steps at home?

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by wcp Dec 21, 2002

XP Home will work only on Peer-to-Peer network , not on Server-Client network.
If you want XP to join a domain, you have to have XP Pro.

by davidr Jan 22, 2003

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by ann777 Dec 23, 2002

XP Home will "work" on a network. You need to set it up for a "workgroup" (put your domain name in the workgroup field) and you will need to manually map any server shares. You need to be a local administrator of your XP Home computer. See the following for setup guidelines:

http://services.juniata.edu/cts/guides/ResNetworkXPHome.pdf

by davidr Jan 22, 2003

Thanks Anna777 this clarified the situation very well.

by jf555 Jan 16, 2003

HI, XP Home will also connect very well to a Netware File Server if using the Novell Client 4.83

by davidr Jan 22, 2003

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by jf555 Jan 16, 2003

HI, XP Home will also connect very well to a Netware File Server if using the Novell Client 4.83

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