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My school requires XP professional. Is there a way around this???

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gamer22

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My school says the Home edition of XP will not work on the schools network and I need to run Windows XP professional. Does this make sense? Is there some way around this? I don't want to upgrade.
 
The only reason it wouldn't work is if they require you to join their AD, but I highly doubt that's the case.
 
It could have something to do with XP home's braindead file sharing options; but you could just firewall that(my school's network required this). As Nothinman said, though, putting student machines on the domain seems quite unlikely.
 
I have personally seen XP Home act stupid on large-"ish" networks with DHCP. The machine's DHCP lease expires, it's shutdown, another machine comes up and takes the address, and the XP Home machine refuses to get a new address. The Active Directory thing could be part of it too. We require any machine plugged into our network to bind to our directory.

You probably can get XP Pro fro the school at an insanely low price, so why not upgrade?
 
Originally posted by: NewBlackDak
We require any machine plugged into our network to bind to our directory.
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Wow...I sure wouldn't want that risk, unless it was a very private network and had very strict control (i.e. 802.1x suth on the switches). You can't get this with a university network very easily.
 
Originally posted by: NewBlackDak
You probably can get XP Pro fro the school at an insanely low price, so why not upgrade?
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I was thinking the same thing. I know that at my university, you can get a copy of XP Pro for free. Since the school is trying to force you to use Pro, I would assume that they're giving it out for free or, at the very least, heavily discounted. I think that's something worth looking into since upgrading wouldn't be bad if you don't have to invest anything in it.
 
Originally posted by: Smilin
I would NOT be cool with my school requiring me to join my own personal computer to their domain.
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My school doesn't require it, but i would upgrade from Home to Pro in an instant. It's awesome having campus wide wifi connection... and it's free.
 
Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
Careful about any upgrades offered, the academic license may expire when you leave school.
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It depends on who they get the licenses through, I have MSDN Academic Alliance and the licenses last for a lifetime as long as they are still used for educational purposes. 🙂

Originally posted by: gamer22
My school says the Home edition of XP will not work on the schools network and I need to run Windows XP professional. Does this make sense? Is there some way around this? I don't want to upgrade.
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Talk to your schools IT department. Only they really know what features they want you to have Professional for. We can better help you find ammo to negotiate with them if you can get this for us.
 
You could always try running with Home Edition and see what happens. If it runs fine, leave it. If not, then spring for Pro.

My college says that same thing. I've been running XP Home for the past two years on campus and it runs fine.
 
Originally posted by: fjf314
Originally posted by: NewBlackDak
You probably can get XP Pro fro the school at an insanely low price, so why not upgrade?
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I was thinking the same thing. I know that at my university, you can get a copy of XP Pro for free. Since the school is trying to force you to use Pro, I would assume that they're giving it out for free or, at the very least, heavily discounted. I think that's something worth looking into since upgrading wouldn't be bad if you don't have to invest anything in it.
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Really? Care to send a copy my way?

Allegedly, my school requires us to use XP Pro (or Mac OS X), and I have XP Pro on one of my machines. That machine, however, started experiencing major, major problems when it arrived on the school network (and McAfee firewall, Spybot S&D, Avira Antivir, and AdAware all show it clean). The other machine I have SuSE linux, and it works fine. I talked to one of the tech guys (whom I knew from another forum), and he says they can't tell and it doesn't matter.
 
Yea at our school we require all students to have XP SP2, Cisco CleanAcess installed, & Symantec A/V if you think you are going to acess our wireless or network from the libraries or dorms.

Our copies of Office/Windows are right around 10 bucks, not a real big chunk.
 
Originally posted by: mooseracing
Yea at our school we require all students to have XP SP2, Cisco CleanAcess installed, & Symantec A/V if you think you are going to acess our wireless or network from the libraries or dorms.

Our copies of Office/Windows are right around 10 bucks, not a real big chunk.
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I'm glad that the university that I attend doesn't have such anal and pointless requirements (I'm free to connect to the network with a Linux or Mac OS X machine if I want to).
 
Originally posted by: ProviaFan
Originally posted by: mooseracing
Yea at our school we require all students to have XP SP2, Cisco CleanAcess installed, & Symantec A/V if you think you are going to acess our wireless or network from the libraries or dorms.

Our copies of Office/Windows are right around 10 bucks, not a real big chunk.
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I'm glad that the university that I attend doesn't have such anal and pointless requirements (I'm free to connect to the network with a Linux or Mac OS X machine if I want to).
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Ditto, why not just use gateway scanning/filtering and shuttle them onto another VLAN that isolates clients?
 
Originally posted by: mooseracing
Yea at our school we require all students to have XP SP2, Cisco CleanAcess installed, & Symantec A/V if you think you are going to acess our wireless or network from the libraries or dorms.

Our copies of Office/Windows are right around 10 bucks, not a real big chunk.
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Really? Which school is this?


 
We just vlan off student traffic. Let them deal with their own crap. I personally encourage students to buy macs or use linux. In fact, I teach the linux class LOL.
 
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