XP Home accessing 2000 Domain

[nimblegimble]

Hi folks,

Somebody at work has turned up with a laptop with XP Home on (groan) and needs to access resources on our 2000 Domain Server.

Is there anyway I can accomplish this without upgrading the laptop to XP Pro?

Thanks for your help,

Nimble.

[Moby-Dick]

I think you might be able to map a drive on a per user basis , but it wont be able to join the domain .

[nimblegimble]

I've tried that as I've done it b4 before it says it can't reach it.... I can ping the server though :/

[Moby-Dick]

hmmm so if you specifically attempt to map a drive to \\server\share , then click on "connect using a different username" and supply some domain details in the form domain\username , it doens't work ?

dont forget to make sure the laptop has the domain controller as a DNS server.

[nimblegimble]

I'm trying to connect to a network drive and not a share - should this matter d'you think? E.G. \\server\public

[nimblegimble]

I've made sure the Xp home has the server's DNS addy, in the log on as different person, it doesn't have the opportunity to specify a domain...

[Moby-Dick]

as i say you specify the domain with a backslah


so under username youd put "domain\username" ( no quotes )

you are trying to map a network drive to a NTFS share , its all good ( just a matter of differing terminologies ! )

[nimblegimble]

yay! I have seen the erro of my noobish ways and I'll go and try that ) Thanks!

[nimblegimble]

Pants, it won't let me specify another user because it reckons the \\server can't be found [sob]

[Moby-Dick]

use the fully qualified domain name eg.

\\server.domain.local\sharename

try that from teh start menu and run
and see if you get a login box

[nimblegimble]

well, it works on a machine that already belongs to the domain (obviously but I thought I'd try it anyhoo), but sadly not on the laptop/ I can still Ping the server so the physical connection is still there....

[ultim8um]

Try using the IP address instead of the name maybe... e.g. \\10.7.1.1\ in an explorer / ie window and see if it presents you with a list of share names...