[Technical] Novell and WinXP Home

[Clarky]

Hi Grant,
 
No, they're fine.
 
It's not a legal requirement that XP Pro be authenticated by an Active
Directory domain, it's just a technical possibility not available to XP Home
users (who instead rely on "Impersonation" to get to network resources).
 
Your colleague's being authenticated by Novell NDS anyway, a completely
different licensing and technical setup.
 
Cheers,
Clarky

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From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of Grant Frazer
Sent: Monday, 30 May 2005 9:53 AM
To: tech at fhc.vic.edu.au
Subject: [Technical] Novell and WinXP Home



Hi All, 

I have just had a query from a colleague about Novell and desktop computer
licensing.   At present they have Windows XP Home installed with the Novell
Netware logon client on top so that they can authenticate to their Novell
Servers.  The question being posed here is legally should they be running
Windows XP Professional as their desktop client with the Novell Netware
logon? This question is based on the fact that Microsoft labels XP
Professional as the corporate network version of Windows which is required
to log on to your corporate network and the fact that if you were running a
Microsoft Domain/Server you must have XP Pro to authenticate.

Any comments and thoughts on this one would be great. 


Grant Frazer 
Information and Communication Technologies Manager 
Fintona Girls School 
79 Balwyn Rd, 
Balwyn, VIC, 3103 
Ph +61 3 98301388 
Fax. +61 3 98885682 
< <http://www.fintona.vic.edu.au> http://www.fintona.vic.edu.au> 

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