XP Home, Company network logon

It seems that XP Home ships without support to log onto the server
automatically. In earlier versions of Windows, the logon could be set up to
take username, domain and password as part of logging on to Windows itself,
and remembered the last domain and username. Unfortunately, in XP Home I am
finding that users do not get a network logon until they perform a task that
requires access to a network resource, like connecting to the shared
directory to access free/busy information for Outlook. When they do get the
prompt, it does not offer the name used to log onto Windows as the default.
For instance, Barney Rubble will get a dialog which offers Barney Rubble,
even though he logs on as BRubble.
Is there any way of getting something more like the 'traditional' logon?
Unfortunately, all the problem machines belong to new employees, who supply
their own machine. They have already bought the machine when they join the
company, and PC World seem to think that everyone needs XP Home.
Thanks
Dave

XP Home can't joint the domain like xp pro. If you have correct tcp/ip
settings, you can logon local computer and access most network resources.

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"David Bolt" wrote in message
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It seems that XP Home ships without support to log onto the server
automatically. In earlier versions of Windows, the logon could be set up
to
take username, domain and password as part of logging on to Windows
itself,
and remembered the last domain and username. Unfortunately, in XP Home I
am
finding that users do not get a network logon until they perform a task
that
requires access to a network resource, like connecting to the shared
directory to access free/busy information for Outlook. When they do get
the
prompt, it does not offer the name used to log onto Windows as the
default.
For instance, Barney Rubble will get a dialog which offers Barney Rubble,
even though he logs on as BRubble.
Is there any way of getting something more like the 'traditional' logon?
Unfortunately, all the problem machines belong to new employees, who
supply
their own machine. They have already bought the machine when they join the
company, and PC World seem to think that everyone needs XP Home.
Thanks
Dave