I agree with Craig on the XP Home issue. Not on business machines or on a network AT ALL. Strictly use Windows 2000 Professional or XP PRo. If the machines running Windows 2000 are lacking some hardware drivers, go to the hardware manufacturer's website and download them.

However, while I use XP Pro personally, I disagree with Craig in that XP Pro has not proven to be more stable than Windows 2000 Professional (yet). I agree that XP Pro is definitely more user-friendly and easier to install given all of the built-in drivers for hardware that W2K was lacking, but all of our W2k pro workstations have proven to be the most stable OS so far. That is what I have seen with our customers and aslo in the govt with 15000 users that have an array of Win98, W2kPro, NT4, and XP Pro.

Tracy

>I have had no response in the Admin category, so I am trying here. Please help if you can.
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>We are running WIN 2000 Server on our network. We have purchased some new computers that have XP Home Edition on them. We have upgraded some to XP Pro, but have had many problems in the machines seeing the network. The problems are inconsistant.
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>We have 'downgraded' some of the machines to WIN 2000. After going through all of the updates, they seem to work well, but do not have all of the needed drivers for the different hardware that is on the new machines.
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>In setting up the XP PRO machines, we :
>- get the updates
>- set up the TCP-IP to our network settings
>- update the virus protection
>- install needed software
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>Is there some trick we are missing, or is XP (Home or PRO) just not a good thing??
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>Thank You!
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>Rollin Burr