Chris Smith wrote:
On Thursday 27 December 2007, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
Not sure why you didn't use Google (apparently, as this didn't take
me very long), but I did:
http://www.ntcompatible.com/story8718.html
My experience is that that hack is relatively useless for this purpose.
The app may have improved but what I found: the user still needs a
local account and all it does is persistently apply a set of
credentials that will allow access to domain resources. Which can
easily be done with a persistent share, albeit the domain credentials
will need to be entered on startup unless the local credentials are
identical.
XP Home simply sucks, even DOS with the Workgroup Add-On can interface
with an MS Domain better. The Vista Home editions are probably just as
sucky in this regard although I haven't seen them yet.
Businesses that license the home editions are making an expensive
mistake.
Not necessarily. If you have a business where each person only logs onto
one computer, then Home is probably all you need. For example, a small
business with only one computer in a department/section or one with
multiple computers but each staff member only uses the computer assigned
to them. This latter case covers a lot of businesses - but many larger
businesses in this class still should prefer Pro over Home for domain
policy setting.
Surprisingly, the place where probably Home shouldn't be used is at
home. At home you are quite likely to have different people using any
given computer and keeping passwords sync'ed is a problem. However,
home users put up with it because they usually aren't running a server.
The expensive mistake both home and business users are making is using
Windows in the first place. :)
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