Win98SE has domain rights but XP doesn't???

[jester700]

I'm not great at networking, and this has me stumped. My wife is a 5th grade teacher, and uses her laptop at school.

Originally, she had a Win98SE desktop I built, and she could login to the domain and read/write to her folders on the LAN. She has a static IP address.

When I replaced that with a Dell WinME laptop, there was no problem.

But but since I replaced that with an XP laptop she cannot - she can login and see the folders but cannot open or modify them. Internet still works, too. Now, this box was originally an XP Home machine, because I didn't realize you couldn't connect to a domain with Home. So I upgraded to XP Pro. Still no dice. I recently applied SP2, and still no good.

I don't think her profile is the issue, because she still has full rights from the schools lab PCs (XP Pro desktops) and also from an old Win98SE laptop.

I thought the machine might be the issue because of the fact that I upgraded it instead of a clean XP Pro install. But she says that one of the district's techs used her machine to login and COULD get into the folders that she cannot.

So, with this limited information can anybody give me any direction? Is it possible there's a combination of profile and machine - could the district's guy disable her MAC address when she logs in? I intend to have a couple other teachers try to login from her laptop, since the tech guy may have different rights than a teacher profile would.

 

[jester700]

So, I tried using other teachers' logins on the WinXP box, as well as with my Win2k laptop. No go in either case. The login script that runs from the server never comes up. So I rebuilt her Win98SE desktop and got her a 17" LCD. Works fine, script runs, she's happy. I figure she must have been mistaken about the tech guy being able to get in, and there's something about XP that makes the computer show up to the server (teachers aren't supposed to use their own PCs at school here) that keeps it out. Somehow Win98SE seems to be able to fly below the radar or something.

 

[Eltano1]

I used to work for a school as a PC Tech, and we had different user rights that the teachers. What makes me wonder why the XP Pro wasn't able to get her (your wife) profile, which resides on the server, it should have able to connect no matter what OS are you using.

Eltano

 

[Sideswipe001]

I'd assume that the problem is that in XP you need to join the computer to the domain, to access domain things, where in 98 you don't have to do so. Since they aren't "supposed" to be able to get on with laptops from home, I'd say that 98 is just explioting a security hole that they don't realize that they have.

 

[ktwebb]

So, this computer account has been properly added to the domain?