Lees onderstaande maar. De optie om lid te worden van een domein is door Microsoft heel bewust geblokkeerd in Home Edition. De Professional Edition levert immers meer dollars op:
Accessing Domain Resources from a Computer Running Windows XP Home Edition
A computer running Windows XP Home Edition cannot be joined to a domain. Moreover, using Home Edition you can’t manually add entries to the list in the Stored User Names And Passwords dialog box. However, users of Windows XP Home Edition who have a domain user account can access shared folders and printers in a domain. If your Home Edition computer is connected to the domain, either through a local area connection or a virtual private network (VPN) connection, you can use either of the following techniques to access domain resources:
In Windows Explorer’s Address bar, type the network path to the resource you want to use, in the form \\servername \sharename. For example, to open the Document share on a server named Everglades, type \\everglades\ document. In a few moments, a dialog box requests your user name and password. Enter the credentials for your domain account, not the local account you use to log on to your own computer. The folders in the share then appear in Windows Explorer.
Open My Network Places and click View Workgroup Computers. If your workgroup name is the same as the domain name, other computers in the domain become visible. (If your workgroup name is not the same as the domain name, click Microsoft Windows Network under Other Places. Then double-click the domain name to see its computers.) Double-click a computer icon, and the request for user name and password appears. Enter your domain credentials, and the computer’s shared resources appear.
Credentials you enter using these methods persist throughout your session, but are discarded when you log off. Therefore, typing an address or browsing to a network resource works fine for ad hoc connections. But if you regularly connect to the same resources, there’s a better way, which lets you avoid the (sometimes lengthy) wait for the password request dialog box and the requirement to enter your network credentials repeatedly: Set up a batch program that makes your network connections, and run the batch program each time you log on (or each time you connect to the network). To set up such a batch program, follow these steps:
1. Start Notepad.
2. For each network resource you want to connect with, type a Net Use command on a separate line. Use the format net use \\servername\sharenamepassword/user:username, where servername is the name of the computer, sharename is the name of a shared folder, password is the password for your domain account, and username is the user name for your domain account. For example, to connect to the Document share on the computer named Everglades using Carl’s domain account, you’d enter
net use \\everglades\document WdYw2Gt /user:carls
caution
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Your network password is stored as plain text in this file. If you don’t want to expose your password in this way, replace it with an asterisk (*). Then Windows prompts you to enter the password when you run the batch program.
3. Save the file, giving it a name with either a .cmd or .bat extension. You might place it on the desktop or in your Startup folder.
Accessing Domain Resources from a Computer Running Windows XP Home Edition
A computer running Windows XP Home Edition cannot be joined to a domain. Moreover, using Home Edition you can’t manually add entries to the list in the Stored User Names And Passwords dialog box. However, users of Windows XP Home Edition who have a domain user account can access shared folders and printers in a domain. If your Home Edition computer is connected to the domain, either through a local area connection or a virtual private network (VPN) connection, you can use either of the following techniques to access domain resources:
In Windows Explorer’s Address bar, type the network path to the resource you want to use, in the form \\servername \sharename. For example, to open the Document share on a server named Everglades, type \\everglades\ document. In a few moments, a dialog box requests your user name and password. Enter the credentials for your domain account, not the local account you use to log on to your own computer. The folders in the share then appear in Windows Explorer.
Open My Network Places and click View Workgroup Computers. If your workgroup name is the same as the domain name, other computers in the domain become visible. (If your workgroup name is not the same as the domain name, click Microsoft Windows Network under Other Places. Then double-click the domain name to see its computers.) Double-click a computer icon, and the request for user name and password appears. Enter your domain credentials, and the computer’s shared resources appear.
Credentials you enter using these methods persist throughout your session, but are discarded when you log off. Therefore, typing an address or browsing to a network resource works fine for ad hoc connections. But if you regularly connect to the same resources, there’s a better way, which lets you avoid the (sometimes lengthy) wait for the password request dialog box and the requirement to enter your network credentials repeatedly: Set up a batch program that makes your network connections, and run the batch program each time you log on (or each time you connect to the network). To set up such a batch program, follow these steps:
1. Start Notepad.
2. For each network resource you want to connect with, type a Net Use command on a separate line. Use the format net use \\servername\sharenamepassword/user:username, where servername is the name of the computer, sharename is the name of a shared folder, password is the password for your domain account, and username is the user name for your domain account. For example, to connect to the Document share on the computer named Everglades using Carl’s domain account, you’d enter
net use \\everglades\document WdYw2Gt /user:carls
caution
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Your network password is stored as plain text in this file. If you don’t want to expose your password in this way, replace it with an asterisk (*). Then Windows prompts you to enter the password when you run the batch program.
3. Save the file, giving it a name with either a .cmd or .bat extension. You might place it on the desktop or in your Startup folder.
