Win XP Home and Domain

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I run a NT domain on my home network.
Yesterday my son bought a new computer which has XP home installed.
How to I make the computer join the domain?
Sorry this is the 1st time I have seen XP.
Please reply here and share the knowledge!
 
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Can XP Home join a domain and access the network resources

You can't join XP Home Edition to a domain. However, you may have two
options to access the domain network resources. 1) Logon local machine using
a domain user account. 2) create a workgroup to match the domain name and
also use the domain user account to logon.
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Fishes out of Water said:
I run a NT domain on my home network.
Yesterday my son bought a new computer which has XP home installed.
How to I make the computer join the domain?
Sorry this is the 1st time I have seen XP.
Please reply here and share the knowledge!
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XP Home cannot join a domain. It may access domain resources, but it cannot
be administered from your NT Server. You may create a workgroup with the
same name as the Domain, so while browsing My Network Places, it will appear
as part of the domain, but as I said before, it will not actually be part of
the domain. For this, you will have to upgrade to XP Professional.

KB
 
Thanks guys...
Ken Briscoe said:
XP Home cannot join a domain. It may access domain resources, but it cannot
be administered from your NT Server. You may create a workgroup with the
same name as the Domain, so while browsing My Network Places, it will appear
as part of the domain, but as I said before, it will not actually be part of
the domain. For this, you will have to upgrade to XP Professional.

KB
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