Correct; Business to join a Domain.
"Brad Pears" wrote:
Quote:
> PS... I keep forgetting to supply all the required info... I mentioned in
> the above post that his machine is unable to join a domain - that is because
> it is a Vista Home Premium machine - not becasue it could not actually join
> our domain. I don't believe you can even join a domain until you get into
> the "Business" level versions of Vista correct?
>
> Brad
>
> "Brad Pears" <bradp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ed2BkVFBIHA.324@xxxxxx Quote:
> > His machine is using the default "workgroup" and is not able to join a
> > domain. We have a Win2K domain here at work - where he is connecting. I
> > can understand that he wouldn't be able to see any "domain" computers when
> > browsing "network" from hsi Vista machine, but he should still be able to
> > supply credentials to map drives to domain computer network shares etc...
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > "John Lee Brown" <johnlbrown53notospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:%23H85r9EBIHA.4836@xxxxxx Quote:
> >> Is his workgroup setup with the same name as your other computers.
> >> "Brad Pears" <bradp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:%23H$7e2EBIHA.3548@xxxxxx
> >>> Me again... I incorrectly stated in teh above post that the Vista laptop
> >>> network was configured as "public" when indeed it is configured as
> >>> "private". I should have also mentioned that "network discovery" is
> >>> turned on...
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, Brad
> >>>
> >>> "Brad Pears" <bradp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> >>> news:eUtQRaEBIHA.5160@xxxxxx
> >>>> We are an XP based organization for the most part and use Windwos 2000
> >>>> and Windwos 2003 servers. Our sales people use their own laptops to
> >>>> access our server software using terminal services and recently several
> >>>> have upgraded or purchased new Vista laptops. This is no big deal as
> >>>> RDP works just fine to access our terminal servers still... .
> >>>>
> >>>> However, one particular salesperson last week wanted to access some
> >>>> documents on one of our Windows 2000 file shares from his local laptop.
> >>>> He was unable to get there.
> >>>>
> >>>> I went over and had a peek at his machine for him and I was unable to
> >>>> do so as well. This user is running Vista Home Premium. Now, I
> >>>> basically know next to nothing about Vista as of yet so I suspect that
> >>>> there is a way to do this, I was just unable to figure it out...
> >>>>
> >>>> I tried mapping a network drive to our domain file share using my
> >>>> domain credentials (which is what you can do using the XP Home version
> >>>> which is also not "domain" friendly) but it was unable to map the
> >>>> drive. Viewing the network shows only his PC - which is kind of what I
> >>>> would have expected I guess...
> >>>>
> >>>> Can anyone give me any ideas as to what I should try or is it just not
> >>>> even possible using this version of Vista? (can't imagine that...)
> >>>>
> >>>> This particular machine connects to our internal LAN using a wireless
> >>>> connection and can access our terminal server with no probs using RDP.
> >>>> The network is set to "public" NOT private and they are obtaining a
> >>>> dynamic IP address from our Win2K DHCP server no probs. I can ping any
> >>>> other machine in the network with no probs either. The Vista firewall
> >>>> is currently off.
> >>>>
> >>>> I do not know what else to look for...
> >>>>
> >>>> Help!
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks, Brad
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> > >
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