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Hi URWB,<br />
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The home edition of Windows Vista (and Windows XP Home too) cannot be joined to a domain. There is no way around this, sorry.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
Daniel
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Hi URWB,

The home edition of Windows Vista (and Windows XP Home too) cannot be joined to a domain. There is no way around this, sorry.

Cheers,
Daniel

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Vista home edition (any variant) cannot be be part of a domain - you need business, enterprise or ultimate.<br />
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You can still connect to shares peer-to-peer
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Vista home edition (any variant) cannot be be part of a domain - you need business, enterprise or ultimate.

You can still connect to shares peer-to-peer

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Our boss bought a new PC with windows vista premium home edition for his office use and wanted it to be connected to our domain based network. I tried everything to connect this PC, but the only thing I succeeded about is to have it access to the internet. When I go to the coputer name configuration area it has only workgroup option, but not domain option. I entered the domain name where workgroup, but it doesn't show me all the network computers, except the one with windows vista operating system which has just workgroup as workgroup name. What could be the reason? Isn't windows vista home edition work in the network environment? please advise
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Our boss bought a new PC with windows vista premium home edition for his office use and wanted it to be connected to our domain based network. I tried everything to connect this PC, but the only thing I succeeded about is to have it access to the internet. When I go to the coputer name configuration area it has only workgroup option, but not domain option. I entered the domain name where workgroup, but it doesn't show me all the network computers, except the one with windows vista operating system which has just workgroup as workgroup name. What could be the reason? Isn't windows vista home edition work in the network environment? please advise

Joining to a domain controller

Windows Vista is an operating system created by Microsoft as the successor to Windows XP. It was intended for PCs, workstations and laptops, and shares the same code base as its successor, Windows 7. New features included an updated graphical user interface (GUI) and visual style dubbed Aero, a new search component called Windows Search, redesigned networking, audio, print and display subsystems, and new multimedia tools. Vista aimed to increase the level of communication between machines on a home network, using peer-to-peer technology to simplify sharing files and media between computers and devices. Windows Vista included version 3.0 of the .NET Framework, allowing software developers to write applications without traditional Windows APIs.