Re: XP HOME
- From: "Jim Harrison" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:28:55 -0700
Can we say "unsupported"?
Yes, you can hack the sh*t out of any operating system MS produces to make it
do things that it wasn't designed to do, but this is
the point where PSS tells you "undo it before you call again."
Jim Harrison
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Sielaff" <gsielaff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 08:11
Subject: [isalist] Re: XP HOME
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My coworker found this:
Windows XP Home Edition Domain Problem Fix
Normally Windows XP Home Edition cannot join network domains, simply
peer-to-peer workgroups. However, there is a fix which can solve the problem
and allow WinXP Home Edition to join a domain. Microsoft wanted to cripple
Windows XP Home Edition so that it could not be used on domains, which would
force many to upgrade to the more expensive Windows XP Professional Edition
simply to join a network domain. However, it -is- possible to get on a
domain using Windows XP Home Edition.
Method 1:
This can also be accomplished with the free and widely available Xteq
X-Setup 6.1 http://www.xteq.com/products/xset/ by navigating to the
NetworkAuto LoginWindows NT/2K/XPSettings option within X-Setup. Simply
enter the appropriate information and click Apply Changes - upon your next
reboot you can then join domains with WinXP Home Edition. Problem solved.
X-Setup includes many other useful Windows XP tweaks/hacks/etc. for Windows
XP as well, all free for personal use.
Method 2:
As Serdar Yegulalp pointed out in his Win2kPowerUsers newsletter today also,
this can be accomplished using Microsoft's TweakUI for Windows XP, but that
has been pulled from Microsoft's website for the time being. I feel that it
is very possible, if not highly probable, that Microsoft will prevent this
workaround from being used with future versions of TweakUI with Windows XP
Home Edition, as they authored both Windows XP and TweakUI, and they don't
want Windows XP Home Edition users to be able to join network domains. A
copy of TweakUI for WinXP can be obtained at http://www.majorgeeks.com.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thor" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 7:52 AM
Subject: [isalist] Re: XP HOME
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>
> While one can VPN into a domain from XP Home using domain credentials to
> access resources throughout the domain under those credentials, giving one
> the "feel" of single-point authentication from a user standpoint, the
> machine itself cannot join the domain.
>
> I have talked with ex-Microsoft guys who were on the XP team, and they did
> say that there was some voodoo one could excert on XP Home (some set of
> undocumented reg hacks) to make it think it was part of a domain, but they
> never confirmed this, nor gave me any details on how this was done. I
> wouldn't think they would lie to me, but I've always been a "show me"
kinda
> guy.
>
> Regardless, the "real world" answer to that is "no, you can't do that."
>
> T
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "amer" <amer_ugeli@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 7:09 AM
> Subject: [isalist] Re: XP HOME
>
>
> > http://www.ISAserver.org
> >
> > wow wow fox easy on me ...the reason i`ve send this question because i
> > have an argument with a friend of mine who insisted that it can be
> > joined...and you made it clear to him so thanks....
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