XP home won't log onto server... weird....

[acemcmac]

Whenever I try to login to the primary server at my company here, and I enter my login and password, I get this:

User Name: computer name\login
Password: ********

With no explanitory error boxes or anything. This is a WinXP home box and I have been denied permission to install a copy of Pro, legit or otherwise, even though the adjacent pro workstation does not have any of these problems. IT here is stumped, and my writing of this post is a legitimate use of company time....

whatever keeps me awake....

 

[ISAslot]

Are you trying to join a domain? If so, AFAIK XP home does not allow this.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

and if it's a 2000 or 2003 server and isn't set up for legacy os (win9x, nt4 sp3 or greater) then you can't log in to any shares at all.

 

[acemcmac]

Well... you give me too much credit. I think the server is an NT flavor even though I cannot confrim this. The only reason I expect to be able to connect to the server is because I've dont it so many times before that i think that its odd that suddenly now I cant make the connection. I've been told conflicting information regarding the status of domains on our network. I know that the network is ocnfitguret to be able to run domains but I think that if we are runing with domains... there's only one and we're all in it.

And yes, I know. WIndows XP home sucks teh nastiness

Any ideas for the settings? I've noticed one account go bad after another and I know that we aren't changing anything....

 

[EeyoreX]

And yes, I know. WIndows XP home sucks teh nastiness

Frankly, Windows XP Home is essentially the same as Windows XP Pro. Unless you are trying to do something like log in to a domain... In which case there is no way around this, XP Home simply does not have this ability. Even if you only have one domain for the entire company, Windows XP Home still can not log into it. Were you able to access the network with Windows XP Home before? If so maybe they are just now implementing domain services on the network. If the IT depeartment is running a domain and they won't allow you to have Windows XP Pro you will have to tell them you won't be able to access the network with XP Home. If your IT dept. is not aware of this limitation of XP Home, and purchased it for use on a domain controlled network, I feel sorry for you... The IT people are either hopelessly clueless, or they just did not bother to do any kind of investigation as to the compatability of the operating system and the network.

<edit>In case they are, in fact, clueless, direct them to this little tibit at Microsoft's site...</edit>

\Dan

 

[acemcmac]

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