Topic: Windows XP Home

[Jim Kempton]

I use SME with 3 Windows 98 boxes with no problems.  Will it be possible connect an XP home box?  With XP Prof I get set various logins etc.  I can't see that in XP Home.

Any help very much appreciated.

TIA

Jim

[Byte]

We have at least 2 WinXP Home connecting to our SME Box with no specail settings.

Hope this gives you the info you want

Byte

[Bill]

Personally I avoid the home version like the plague but from what I remember of its limited networking is that you should be able to connect to a workgroup but not to a domain. It should still work with SME.

[Jim Kempton]

Many thanks to you noth for your prompt replies

regards

Jim

[Ed Form]

Bill wrote:
>
> Personally I avoid the home version like the plague but from
> what I remember of its limited networking is that you should
> be able to connect to a workgroup but not to a domain. It
> should still work with SME.

There is a quite serious problem with XP home and SME servers in which the number of files is misreported in directories holding lots of files, in effect lots of files become invisible. This problem may occur on all linux servers, but I haven't been able to check this.

I run a small document scanning bureau and regularly handle archives with 26 subdirectories [A-Z], each containing many subdirectories, each of which may contain anything from one, to dozens, of multipage G4 Tiff files, typically 3-7000 files in all. If I copy such an archive onto an SME server, and interrogate the archive from an XP-Home workstation set up as a member of the same workgroup as the server, a righ-click-properties call will usually understate the total number of files by 10-20% and, if I run a copy of the archive from the server onto the same workstation, it will only copy the number of files that it found in the properties dialogue. If I interrogate the same archive in the same way on an XP-Pro workstation it will return the correct answer. If the XP-Home workstation looks at the same archive copied onto a Windows server it will always return the correct number of files.

Ed Form

[Jon Roberts]

Jim,

I use both XP home and XP pro PCs attached to my SME server, with the SME server set as Workgroup & Domain Controller.

XP Home can not connect as part of the domain as the Home version does not support this.  However, it sees the SME server as part of its workgroup (workgroup name = domain name) and works fine that way.  

My kids use the XP Home PC and it suits their needs just fine.  However I would agree with the previous posts that, if you intend to use the PC in a serious environment, you should opt for XP pro (or Windows 2000).  

One final tip (in case you didn't already know), if you want to connect an XP pro PC to an SME domain, you have to apply a registry patch.  This can be found on your SME server at /home/e-smith/files/server-resources/regedit/winxplogon.reg (or at least that's where it was on mine!).