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re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?' Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 4:06 pm Posted by Mats (1 messages posted) Try this link http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/net.asp Me and my family have a network with WindowsXP, 98 and NT4. Just TCP/IP, nothing more. The differences between Home/Pro is a "hardtofinder" somwere on the Ms-site. For one, Pro is SMP-capable (multiprocessor). On Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 1:40 pm, Scott LePage wrote: >I have a question about What's >the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?: > >I am trying to add a Windows XP Home Edition into a 10 user Windows 98SE >peer-to-peer workgroup. The article says that XP Home Edition only supports >peer-to-peer for 5 users. Does this mean that it will not configure at all ... >or will it just show 5 of the 10 peers? WIN 98 SE is using NetBeui as the >share protocol - XP says to use TCP/IP? We happen to have both NetBeui >and TCP/IP on the 98SE PC's. > >Has anyone experienced this problem? Does anyone have a workaround or >a how-to to integrate an XP Home Edition into a Win 98 SE peer-to-peer >environment? > >Would the XP Professional Edition solve this problem? > >Thanks - Scott > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?' Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 5:47 pm Posted by Casey (571 messages posted) Hi , as far as whats different , group policy edit, file encryption , Domain capability , and a whole bunch of small stuff , but as far as what matters for what you want to do , nothing. As far as I understand either will support 10 simultaneous connections. As for Netbeui , no need to change your whole network , Netbeui is on the XP cd you just have to manually add it from the "valueadd\msft\net\netbeui" directory on the CD, and also add it to the list of protocols available for your NIC. Never heard of a 5 limit , but I do know Home can't log on to a domain. good luck, Case On Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 1:40 pm, Scott LePage wrote: >I have a question about What's >the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?: > >I am trying to add a Windows XP Home Edition into a 10 user Windows 98SE >peer-to-peer workgroup. The article says that XP Home Edition only supports >peer-to-peer for 5 users. Does this mean that it will not configure at all ... >or will it just show 5 of the 10 peers? WIN 98 SE is using NetBeui as the >share protocol - XP says to use TCP/IP? We happen to have both NetBeui >and TCP/IP on the 98SE PC's. > >Has anyone experienced this problem? Does anyone have a workaround or >a how-to to integrate an XP Home Edition into a Win 98 SE peer-to-peer >environment? > >Would the XP Professional Edition solve this problem? > >Thanks - Scott > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?' Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 8:48 pm Posted by C K (6525 messages posted) Along with what's already been mentioned, XP Home has had the security measures that even Win 9x systems have, disabled/stripped out. In other words, you won't be able to put passwords on shared resources. XP Home was designed for the home environment, where supposedly MS thought that all that much security was not necessary. Simple file and print sharing is about all that is available in XP Home. It won't remember passwords for logging in to shares either. At least not that I have been able to determine. PC Mag has had articles on the subject within the past 3 months. You are better off with XP Pro if you need any kind of security on the machine at all. C K On Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 1:40 pm, Scott LePage wrote: >I have a question about What's >the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?: > >I am trying to add a Windows XP Home Edition into a 10 user Windows 98SE >peer-to-peer workgroup. The article says that XP Home Edition only supports >peer-to-peer for 5 users. Does this mean that it will not configure at all ... >or will it just show 5 of the 10 peers? WIN 98 SE is using NetBeui as the >share protocol - XP says to use TCP/IP? We happen to have both NetBeui >and TCP/IP on the 98SE PC's. > >Has anyone experienced this problem? Does anyone have a workaround or >a how-to to integrate an XP Home Edition into a Win 98 SE peer-to-peer >environment? > >Would the XP Professional Edition solve this problem? > >Thanks - Scott > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?' Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 3:18 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (7823 messages posted) when it comes to network security home and pro are no different neither will password protect a shared folder or printer you can make them read only or read write nothing more (I have tried everything) XP has NO network passwords, I have found no differences big enough to justify the extra $100 On Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 8:48 pm, ckrokit wrote: >Along with what's already been mentioned, XP Home has had the security measures that >even Win 9x systems have, disabled/stripped out. In other words, you won't be able >to put passwords on shared resources. XP Home was designed for the home environment, >where supposedly MS thought that all that much security was not necessary. Simple >file and print sharing is about all that is available in XP Home. It won't remember >passwords for logging in to shares either. At least not that I have been able to >determine. PC Mag has had articles on the subject within the past 3 months. You >are better off with XP Pro if you need any kind of security on the machine at all. > C K > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?' Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 5:52 pm Posted by C K (6525 messages posted) Interesting.. Mine does. The setup is different than you would think it should be. Obviously MS trying to make things better for engineers rather than the average user. The other BIG difference is if you have a two processor machine, you need Pro to use both processors. Home will only use one unless you know how to get around that. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 3:18 pm, Adam Bradley wrote: >when it comes to network security home and pro are no different neither will >password protect a shared folder or printer you can make them read only or read write >nothing more (I have tried everything) XP has NO network passwords, I have >found no differences big enough to justify the extra $100 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?' Friday, December 6, 2002 at 8:49 am Posted by Mary Branscombe (1 messages posted) the thing here is to switch off Simple File Sharing - which you can do in Pro, but not in Home. XP treats a log in to a shared resource as all or nothing with SFS; Pro defaults to password protecting shared resources on our network as far as Home PCs are concerned, but Pro also caches those passwords (when it's Pro doing the connecting) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?' Sunday, August 17, 2003 at 8:17 pm Posted by Trout (1 messages posted) I beg to differ about the password protection comment by Adam Bradley. Perhaps you should have a look at the security policies in Administrative tools and make sure that your shared folders are on an NTFS partition or you wont have the extra security options. Be safe. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 3:18 pm, Adam Bradley wrote: >when it comes to network security home and pro are no different neither will >password protect a shared folder or printer you can make them read only or read write >nothing more (I have tried everything) XP has NO network passwords, I have >found no differences big enough to justify the extra $100 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?' Sunday, November 23, 2003 at 12:25 pm Posted by Mis (5 messages posted) I've been forced to use an XP Home machine in a peer-to-peer network and I've been able to see as many users as I needed (at least 30). For the 98se machines to get any shared resource from the XP machine, you'll have to create users on the XP machine for them to be able to access it. As far as difference with Pro and Home, Home can't log into a domain, Home doesn't have passwords for shares, and Home doesn't have the variety of choices for user types that Pro does. On Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 1:40 pm, Scott LePage wrote: >I have a question about What's >the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?: > >I am trying to add a Windows XP Home Edition into a 10 user Windows 98SE >peer-to-peer workgroup. The article says that XP Home Edition only supports >peer-to-peer for 5 users. Does this mean that it will not configure at all ... >or will it just show 5 of the 10 peers? WIN 98 SE is using NetBeui as the >share protocol - XP says to use TCP/IP? We happen to have both NetBeui >and TCP/IP on the 98SE PC's. > >Has anyone experienced this problem? Does anyone have a workaround or >a how-to to integrate an XP Home Edition into a Win 98 SE peer-to-peer >environment? > >Would the XP Professional Edition solve this problem? > >Thanks - Scott > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?' Friday, March 26, 2004 at 5:12 am Posted by aissam (1 messages posted) Well WinXp Pro offers more feature if your connecting your machine onto a network. It will be compatiable with the other MS NOS's. As for XP Home it is only suited for Home or Small Business. Yes if you want to use File Security ensure that NTFS is enable, as FAT will not help. On Sunday, August 17, 2003 at 8:17 pm, Trout wrote: >I beg to differ about the password protection comment by Adam Bradley. Perhaps you >should have a look at the security policies in Administrative tools and make sure >that your shared folders are on an NTFS partition or you wont have the extra security >options. > >Be safe. > > >On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 3:18 pm, Adam Bradley wrote: >>when it comes to network security home and pro are no different neither will >>password protect a shared folder or printer you can make them read only or read >write >>nothing more (I have tried everything) XP has NO network passwords, I have >>found no differences big enough to justify the extra $100 >> [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?' Monday, September 13, 2004 at 9:16 am Posted by Alice (1 messages posted) When you find the result let me know. Don't waste the money on XP Professional unless you want it for other reasons. I made the mistake of doing just that. Microsoft limits peer to peer to no more than 10. Just another way for Bill Gates to make money. NetBui will help but you still cant do more than 10 pcs. On Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 1:40 pm, Scott LePage wrote: >I have a question about What's >the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?: > >I am trying to add a Windows XP Home Edition into a 10 user Windows 98SE >peer-to-peer workgroup. The article says that XP Home Edition only supports >peer-to-peer for 5 users. Does this mean that it will not configure at all ... >or will it just show 5 of the 10 peers? WIN 98 SE is using NetBeui as the >share protocol - XP says to use TCP/IP? We happen to have both NetBeui >and TCP/IP on the 98SE PC's. > >Has anyone experienced this problem? Does anyone have a workaround or >a how-to to integrate an XP Home Edition into a Win 98 SE peer-to-peer >environment? > >Would the XP Professional Edition solve this problem? > >Thanks - Scott > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?' Saturday, May 14, 2005 at 11:57 am Posted by Meremo (1 messages posted) In order to get XP Home Edition to cooperate in a 98 / any other peer to peer workgroup, you need to load the IPX Transport Protocol on your XP machine. This will allow it to see all other machines in the workgroup. Mere [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows XP Home and Professional editions?' Tuesday, November 8, 2005 at 7:11 am Posted by T Outcalt (1 messages posted) Something funny about Win 98 is the fact it wants to be what called the Browse Master if you shut this function off you shouls eliminate the problem. You could also make the floppy disk the WXP offers you to set up the network. That also fixes the problem. T. On Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 5:47 pm, Casey wrote: >Hi , as far as whats different , group policy edit, file encryption , Domain capability >, and a whole bunch of small stuff , but as far as what matters for what you want >to do , nothing. As far as I understand either will support 10 simultaneous connections. >As for Netbeui , no need to change your whole network , Netbeui is on the XP cd you >just have to manually add it from the "valueadd\msft\net\netbeui" directory on the >CD, and also add it to the list of protocols available for your NIC. Never heard >of a 5 limit , but I do know Home can't log on to a domain. good luck, Case > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum