Domain logins

[rtyler]

I work in a school. We have just bought a new XP laptop
and we cannot get the majority of the users to log on to
the domain, only users that have an account set-up can do
this.

Local users have been set-up to work locally, but there
could be upto 1000 users of the XP laptop and I do not
want to set-up 1000 users. Is there a way around this?

We have no problem doing this in Windows 2000.

Thanks.

[Gordon]

"rtyler" > wrote in message
...
> I work in a school. We have just bought a new XP laptop
> and we cannot get the majority of the users to log on to
> the domain, only users that have an account set-up can do
> this.
>
> Local users have been set-up to work locally, but there
> could be upto 1000 users of the XP laptop and I do not
> want to set-up 1000 users. Is there a way around this?
>
> We have no problem doing this in Windows 2000.
>
> Thanks.
>

If you don't need to use policies, then just set up the machine as a
workgroup. You will still be able to access the network.

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

Have you actually joined the laptop to the Domain ?
If not then only local users will be able to logon.
Once the laptop is a Domain member it will be able to authenticate all users
who have accounts in the Domain.

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"rtyler" > wrote in message
...
> I work in a school. We have just bought a new XP laptop
> and we cannot get the majority of the users to log on to
> the domain, only users that have an account set-up can do
> this.
>
> Local users have been set-up to work locally, but there
> could be upto 1000 users of the XP laptop and I do not
> want to set-up 1000 users. Is there a way around this?
>
> We have no problem doing this in Windows 2000.
>
> Thanks.
>

[joust in jest]

If your laptop is XP Home, it can not join a domain.

steve


"rtyler" > wrote in message
...
> I work in a school. We have just bought a new XP laptop
> and we cannot get the majority of the users to log on to
> the domain, only users that have an account set-up can do
> this.
>
> Local users have been set-up to work locally, but there
> could be upto 1000 users of the XP laptop and I do not
> want to set-up 1000 users. Is there a way around this?
>
> We have no problem doing this in Windows 2000.
>
> Thanks.
>