Topic: WinXP Home and Samba Domain Cortroller??

[tenanji]

Does anyone know how to make a WinXP Home workstation join the domain?  I did a search but didn't find anything specific for XP Home, XP Pro works great, but I can't get an XP Home machine on the domain.

Thanks,
Jay

[funkusmunkus]

windows XP home can't join a domain, that's something exclusive to pro.
you can have it as part of a work group though.
just creat a user on the server with an identical user name and password as the one used on the xp machine, and you should be able to access the ibays.

well it works for me anyway.
hope that helps
cheers

[gzartman]

windows XP home can't join a domain, that's something exclusive to pro.
you can have it as part of a work group though.

This isn't entirely true. While XP home can't actively participate in a domain as a full fledged member, it can be made to function in it.  There is a registry hack out there someplace that I ran across a few months back that allows XP home to participate in a domain.  Spent a bit of time working google and you should come up with the solution I mention.

Greg Zartman

[gelcube]

This isn't entirely true. While XP home can't actively participate in a domain as a full fledged member, it can be made to function in it.  There is a registry hack out there someplace that I ran across a few months back that allows XP home to participate in a domain.  Spent a bit of time working google and you should come up with the solution I mention.

Still, funkusmunkus' suggestion is probably the best way to go.  I used that solution for my wife's XP Home PC and haven't had any trouble accessing any of the ibays, email, or internet.

EDIT:  It also seems to work better if you map a persistent drive to an ibay.  And don't forget...if you change your password on the XP Home machine, you'll need to change it on the SME as well.

[tenanji]

Thanks for all the help.  The WinXP Home machine can now see the SME Server and can access iBays as well as the internet.  You guys helped me get this far.

Printing is still an issue.  I have the printer setup on the SME Server \\server\minolta and can add it but after a reboot I no longer have access and have to delete and re-add it.

Any suggestions?

[crazybob]

You might want to check out x-setup pro at http://www.x-setup.net. It is a tweaker that is supposed to allow you to adjust xp home to join a domain. I have not tried it, but found reference to it in another forum

Bob

[gelcube]

Printing is still an issue.  I have the printer setup on the SME Server \\server\minolta and can add it but after a reboot I no longer have access and have to delete and re-add it.

Any suggestions?

If you've mapped a drive to an ibay as previously suggested, then reboot and open the drive before you try to print.  If that works, then your machine is probably not authenticating to the server until it accesses the drive.  If that's the case, then use a batch file with the "net use" command in it to map the ibay, and place it in your startup folder.  This will make sure you authenticate to the server every time you reboot.

example batch file command:
net use f: \\<servername>\<ibayname> /user:<username>