Windows 98 machines don't join a domain - they are just able to browse it. You only have a choice to change the workgroup name on a Win98 machine - you make the workgroup name the same as the domain name and they can browse the network resources and map drives to them. They are like XP Home edition which can just join workgroups and not domains.
The System applet in the control panel will allow you to join a system to a domain.
Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate editions have a feature called Domain Join, which is designed to join a domain quickly and more securely.
ofcourse! use the windows 7 profesional. 'cause the words domain is only for the internet. Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate
RIS delivers only clean installs of XP Professional, you cannot use this technology to upgrade clients such as Windows 98 to XP. While you cannot use RIS to install domain controllers, you can have Windows Server 2003 stand alone servers which can then join the domain and promoted to domain controllers. Wireless networks do not support PXE network cards, so you cannot use the wireless medium to install XP Professional via RIS.
Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate
Normally, Windows XP Home Edition cannot join network domains, simply peer-to-peer workgroups. However, there is a fix which can solve the problem and allow WinXP Home Edition to join a domain. Microsoft wanted to cripple Windows XP Home Edition so that it could not be used on domains, which would force many to upgrade to the more expensive Windows XP Professional Edition simply to join a network domain. However, it -is- possible to get on a domain using Windows XP Home Edition.The website from which this answer plagiarized goes on to say:This can also be accomplished with the free and widely available Xteq X-Setup 6.1 by navigating to the "Network \ Auto Login \ Windows NT/2K/XP \ Settings" option within X-Setup. Simply enter the appropriate information and click "Apply Changes" - upon your next reboot, you can then join domains with WinXP Home Edition. Problem solved. X-Setup includes many other useful Windows XP tweaks / hacks / etc. for Windows XP as well, all free for personal use.The website in question.[1]That being said, the question wasn't how to join a domain with WinXP Home, but how to join a workgroup to a domain, and that is not possible, because they are two completely different systems.
user account and a computer account
users global groups domain local groups
the functional level of the domain is set to Windows 2000 mixed
Only computers running Windows NT or later can have a computer account in a Windows Server 2008 domain; Windows 9x computers cannot. Since Windows 98 came out after Windows NT, the answer is yes. -Brandon
check the dns first check the IP would has admin rights on the domain to add machine. restart PC
Windows Server 2003, Web Edition