Please Please Please someone help me. I am going through such a rollar coaster with this thing and all I hear is how easy this should be :( OK- I upgraded to Windows XP Professional. Everything was going good until it did not recognize my domain name. I kept trying to "bind" the icp and ipx/spx. For some reason this was not working or I didn't do it right. Then I tried to create a new connevtion doinf this again. And now a log on screen does appear however it now does not recognize the domain and now I can't even get into winodows or my files without being able to log on. I have no clue what I did. I am at college trying to hook up to their domain and I am not getting any decent help with this.

If this is your computer, log on as the local Administrator with the password you created during setup. It should not try to authenticate you to the domain this way. You should be able to get to the desktop and at least see what's going on. Maybe call the IT guys for you college and see what the setting are you need for Windows 2000/XP in order to authenticate. Have they added you to the domain?

hi i still dont know why the xp is not recognizing my account...i can access itr through others computers and the tech people still did not get back to me.

I found the following on another site looking for a fix for the same issue. Q. Why can't I join a Windows NT 4.0 domain from a Windows XP or Windows 2000 client? A. XP and Win2K use DNS instead of NetBIOS to name domains. As a result, if you've installed only TCP/IP on the XP or Win2K client and you've disabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP, the client can't join an NT 4.0 domain. To enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP, perform the following steps: From the Start menu, select Settings, and click Network and Dial-up Connection. Right-click Local Area Connection, and select Properties from the context menu. Click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and click Properties. Click Advanced, and select the WINS tab. Click "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP." Click OK, and ignore the WINS error. Click OK to close all dialog boxes. If you don't want to use NetBIOS over TCP/IP, you can instead use NetBEUI on all clients.