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Adding XP home to a 2000 Domain ? ?

Hi,

I have been looking into the possibilities at adding an XP Home PC to a 2000 Server, and there are mixed stories!

Some say it cant be done, go buy the Pro version (which I don’t want to do because I just received my order and ALL 5 NEW PC's were DELL with XP home installed, and they didn’t say I needed XP pro even when I told them what I wanted to do with them.... AS YOU CAN TELL IAM NEW TO NETWORKING AND SERVERS...

The other story is that you CAN get an XP home PC to log onto a 2000 server Domain.

Can ANYONE help me on this matter.... I really hope its the latter ?

Cheers

Neil

Joel Miller

You unfortunately cannot. You may find a hack to let you do this but it would be against the license agreement.

The ability to join a Domain is only available in Pro.
Please see here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp

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