XP Home is for use in the home, and the workgroups that a home may need.  It 
cannot join a domain, and any success in looking like you joined is just 
that, looking like it. There are many things to manage in a domain besides 
the authentication that Home is incapable of, but does when workgroups match.  
However, for a slightly larger licensing fee, you can have Pro, which is made 
to work as a desktop in most environments, especially in those domains.

anthony

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 02:50 pm, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> Seems like a curious question for this group but I don't feel like
> joining a Widows mailing list just to ask it. Besides, it's actually a
> Samba question in disguise.
>.  
> I was trying to add some Windows XP computers to a a domain and it just
> wasn't working. I finally wised up to the fact that these computers
> came preloaded with some crippled version of Windows called 'Home
> Edition' even though the salesman had sold them to the poor business
> owner as office machines. The OS had been customized with HP splash
> screens and whatnot to the point where it was only obvious that it was
> something like XP. I didn't really know that MS deliberately made
> something crappier than Windows.
>
> So how does one tell just by looking what version of Windows is running
> on a machine?
>
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