XP Home on the LAN

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I realize that MS does not suggest using XP Home in a
corporate environment but, does that mean there is no way
to setup said computer on my LAN?

Any advice woul be appreciated...

Thanks
 
You can plug it into the LAN and it will get an address from a dhcp server,
can get to the internet, etc. You will not be able to join it to the domain
and participate in all the cool stuff you get with a domain :)
 
hnathan said:
I realize that MS does not suggest using XP Home in a
corporate environment but, does that mean there is no way
to setup said computer on my LAN?
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Depends what you mean by "setup" and what your "corporate LAN" is like in
the first place.

If all of your corporate LAN computers are individuals with drive shares, no
one has a "domain logon" - just a logon to their PC (in other words, that PC
would work the same, excluding mapping network drives, no matter where you
set it down. The same users could use it ffor the rest of their lives and
only notice the missing driver shares..) Then sure! XP Home will fit right
in to that hodge-podge!

However, if there is a domain setup where you want to join the domain?
Nope. Not gonna do it!
You could wing it with local scripts to map drives as long as the
usernames/passwords matched and such, you might fool it for a while.

And lastly - if all you mean is "I want to plug in and see the Internet -
because we have a T3!" - that depends on your Network Administrator. If
he's set it up for "ease of use", likely - yeah - you can. Plug in and go!
Get a DHCP IP address and start surfing. If he has it setup where you don't
have a DHCP IP or it's based of MAC addresses, then I salute him/her for
his/her fervor and inform you that you would need to talk to him/her about
getting your machine added to the list of "qualified" PCs.
 
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