Enable Fast User switching when in a domain

[gbiz]

Okay, so I have a MCE 2005 machine that I got to join my domain at home, which of course disables Fast User Switching. But I have an extender that I need to work, which needs fast user switching to work.

See its fricken pointless if I cant, to have MCE and not be able to join a domain. I have a lot of media copied onto my server, and I want to be able to watch it on other TVs.

Is there a way to hack XP to allow fast user switching when its in a domain? If not, anyone got any other ideas?

 

[mechBgon]

Last I knew, it was impossible for an XP system to use Fast User Switching in a domain situation. Which is a bummer.

 

[loup garou]

This is precisely why domain membership was officially removed from 2005MCE. You could try modifying this to allow some functionality.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: gbiz
Okay, so I have a MCE 2005 machine that I got to join my domain at home, which of course disables Fast User Switching. But I have an extender that I need to work, which needs fast user switching to work.

See its fricken pointless if I cant, to have MCE and not be able to join a domain. I have a lot of media copied onto my server, and I want to be able to watch it on other TVs.

Is there a way to hack XP to allow fast user switching when its in a domain? If not, anyone got any other ideas?

FUS and domains are mutually exclusive, it's not been implemented. There is no hack or workaround for it.

 

[stash]

See its fricken pointless if I cant, to have MCE and not be able to join a domain. I have a lot of media copied onto my server, and I want to be able to watch it on other TVs

You don't need to join a domain for this.

 

[imported_SeanRinVA]

Set your MCE Workgroup to be the same as your domain, and set the local userid/password on the MCE machine to match the domain userid/password, and it'll do passthrough.

 

[gbiz]

I saw that one about the logon scripts before, but there is other things in my domain I want...

But anways, making the WG the same as domain and User/Pass the same will get you rights??? That shouldnt happen (meaning MS shouldnt allow it to!)

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: gbiz
I saw that one about the logon scripts before, but there is other things in my domain I want...

But anways, making the WG the same as domain and User/Pass the same will get you rights??? That shouldnt happen (meaning MS shouldnt allow it to!)

Why shouldn't MS allow it to?

When the workstation is a member of a domain, one part of the process is authenticating against the appropriate domain controller - after which you are considered authenticated to the domain.

If you not a member of a domain, yet still needed resources from the domain, how would you go about that? Windows has a solution - if you attempt to access domain resources, you are prompted for credentials, which authenticates you for access to that resource.

By setting your username and password to the same thing as what the account on the domain's username and password is, then all windows does is skip the step where it prompts you for a username and password - it just sends the currently logged on username and password to the server.

There's not really any security issue there - you still have to know that account's username and password.

 

[MedicBob]

I do not know of a way to use FUS as part of a domain. I do know from reading if you hack MSE 2005 to join a domain the extenders no longer work and that there isn't a workaround that I have read/seen.

Best bet is to get MCE 2004 join domain and then upgrade to MCE 2005.

 

[gbiz]

I would have thought there would be a way to hack it to allow FUS in a domain, where it would only display users on the local computer when it loaded up to the logon page.

I guess Ill try the workgroup method, and see if I can get what I need.


How about a hack for a Linksys MCX (Media Center Extender) to allow different codecs!!!!!!!!

 

[oog]

my machine isn't part of a domain, so i don't know for sure, but i thought there was a setting in the group policy editor that turned on FUS. is it disabled when your machine is part of a domain?

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: oog
my machine isn't part of a domain, so i don't know for sure, but i thought there was a setting in the group policy editor that turned on FUS. is it disabled when your machine is part of a domain?

Yes, there are settings to enable FUS in GPEditor, I believe, among other locations.

However, when the machine is joined to a domain, all of those settings are disabled.