From: windows Networking with Home edition <windows Networking with Home on
I have windows XP Home edition onmy laptop. I want to join my laptop with the
domain and when I try to do so I go to system and I find only workgroup not
the domain. I tried to startup netlogon services but it didnot work. Pl. help

Neeraj

From: Chuck on
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:47:01 -0700, windows Networking with Home edition
<windows Networking with Home edition(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have windows XP Home edition onmy laptop. I want to join my laptop with the
>domain and when I try to do so I go to system and I find only workgroup not
>the domain. I tried to startup netlogon services but it didnot work. Pl. help
>
>Neeraj

Neeraj,

A computer running XP Home can't be joined to a domain. If you make the
workgroup name that it's in identical to the domain name, though, the domain and
workgroup should be visible to each other.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#DomainClient>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#DomainClient

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