Novell Client and XP Home Edition...

[mrosen]

Hi,

Geir Holmavatn wrote:
>
> Thanks for the comments. We're a private boarding school, and the IT
> dept unfortunately doesn't have a budget that enable us to do whatever
> is the best in any situation.

Ok.

> I just wonder what you mean with "you should *really* not use any
> pre-installed OS on any machine". We have always purchased computers
> with XP Pro preinstalled, and I have never thought about replacing than
> for any reason. It works flawlessly with our domain controllers with
> the policies enforced....

You've been lucky. Preinstalled windows by HW vendors is very often
severely "broken". It's not only cluttered with crap, it's also often
very badly configured. The last one was HP. Their XP preinstallation on
a lot of machines had drivers for both, Intel and AMD Cpus registered,
but the unused driver on the HW was simply deleted, so it couldn't be
loaded. Then came the next XP Service Pack, and guess what happened when
it got installed on those machines? It reintroduced the driver HP had
simply deleted, so XP then tried to load both. Not fun.

> However the scenario is now with a bunch of netbooks, having XP Home
> installed. I hoped to get to know e-directory and finally start to
> phase out our windows servers in favor of edirectory and novell services.

Well, XP Home is not supported in any way in a MS domain environment
either, so no change here.

CU,
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