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XP Home and XP Pro Networking Differences?

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Dazmite

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Hi Guys,

My shop forman just ordered a new laptop for his daughter to take to college. He was told that he should upgrade to XP Pro because, XP Home may not work on the colleges network with more than 5 PCs. I have never used XP before, but this doesn't sound right to me. Is he getting beat? Or is this true?
Thanks for Your Help,
Paul
 
XP Home can not maintain life connection with more than 5 computers at the same time.

XP Pro can maintain up to 10.

I can not see how it pertains to a Laptop that is going to be a Client on the school Network.

Otherwise as far as Network goes, XP Home has simple file sharing, XP Pro has more complicated File sharing with better security.
 
Being a laptop (client), I wonder how often it's necessary to matain more than 5 connections in the same instance?
 
As I recall, XP Home also cannot join a Windows domain. This could be an issue if your school has a domain and file servers where common data is stored.

- G
 
uh, the two difference between home and pro are

pro can join to a domain, home cannot (but a pc on an ip network doesn't necessarily need to join the domain, you can still provide credentials each time you connect to a domain resource, usually)

pro supports dual cpu, home does not
 
Thanks Everyone,
I am going to have to show him this. LOL. Hey, if I was a salesperson I guess I would do the same. Especially if it makes payday bigger.
Thanks Again,
Paul
 
If you want pro, you can check to see if your college will sell it to students cheap. At my university, we get great deals on XP Pro and Office Pro -- something like $25 or $30 each. There are also other software programs, e.g. Acrobat, that we can get excellent academic pricing for.
 
Originally posted by: rw120555
If you want pro, you can check to see if your college will sell it to students cheap. At my university, we get great deals on XP Pro and Office Pro -- something like $25 or $30 each. There are also other software programs, e.g. Acrobat, that we can get excellent academic pricing for.
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I would get pro (if you think your forman's daughter is actually going to play with settings...)
the two useful features I found in pro

- Share security control (in home you can't set passwords on each share...)
- Remember network password option (invaluable if routinely connecting to other servers with username different from local name)
 
Originally posted by: rw120555
If you want pro, you can check to see if your college will sell it to students cheap. At my university, we get great deals on XP Pro and Office Pro -- something like $25 or $30 each. There are also other software programs, e.g. Acrobat, that we can get excellent academic pricing for.
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I agree. At my school, we got a MS software package of WinXP Pro, Office XP (with Frontpage), Visio 2002, VS.NET Educational. All for $150 Canadian.
 
Originally posted by: rw120555
If you want pro, you can check to see if your college will sell it to students cheap. At my university, we get great deals on XP Pro and Office Pro -- something like $25 or $30 each. There are also other software programs, e.g. Acrobat, that we can get excellent academic pricing for.
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