Novell Clients for Windows ME and XP Home
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Jan 2002
Q.
Why won't Novell provide Client 32 products for Windows ME and Windows XP Home?
MEing It in a Big Way
A.
Dear Big: Early on, Microsoft had desktop products such as Windows 95/98, as well as their Windows NT 3x and 4x client and server products. With the introduction of Windows 2000, Microsoft split the product line and introduced Windows ME (WinME). WinME stripped out network functionality.
Microsoft is continuing this split product-line approach with Windows XP. Windows XP Home, like WinME, is not designed for business networking support not-- even for Microsoft Networks. Since Windows ME and Windows XP Home are directed at the home market, Novell is not spending valuable development resources to provide clients for these products.
However, unofficial testing by Novell SysOps has indicated that the Windows XP Home version should work with the Novell XP client. But this is a non-supported configuration.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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