Re: Single XP Account for local and domain user

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:11:44 +0100

That's great guys. Thank for all the great suggestions and advice!

-- 
Peter Wright
Author of ADO.NET Novice To Pro, from Apress Inc.
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"Durand" <not@an.invalid.address> wrote in message
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> Pete,
>
> Create an account on your WS2k3 with the same name and password on your
current
> XP machine. Then on your XP machine, change the network name to domain and
make
> it the same domain name as your server. Then login your XP machine to join
the
> domain and you should not be presented with an option to create another
account
> on the XP machine. It really is that simple, from my experience with ws2k
and
> NT4 networks. The settings on your client machine you have will not
change, but
> if you still have doubts, set the XP machine in a workgroup with the same
name
> as your domain, and you'll still have the server controlling access to the
> network though not all aspects of it as if it were joined to the domain.
You do
> not need to worry about having to go thru the trouble of creating new
profiles
> for joining the WS2k3 machine.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Durand
>
> ________________________________
> "Pete Wright" <pete@codemonkey.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm fairly new to the server scene (well, actually, I'm completely
> clueless), so bear with me here.
> On my home network I have an XP Pro machine that has always been part of
my
> home network's workgroup. I log on to the client machine with my user name
> and password and I have all my settings right where I left them.
>
> I'm now installing a Windows Server 2003 server on the network which
ideally
> I'd like to control all aspects of security. Now, even in my state of
> complete stupidity I know that to utlise the active directory based
security
> features of Win2K3, I have to log into the domain from my XP machine. I
have
> a feeling though (seen it at work) that when I do this, I'm going to get
> another user account on my XP machine with completely different settings
etc
> from my old one.
>
> Is there any way to configure either the XP client or the server so that
my
> new Domain account picks up all my old local client account stuff?
>
> Sorry if this has been asked a thousand times (I have looked, and can't
find
> anything that precisely matches what I want to do), and thanks in advance
> for the help.
>
> -- 
> Peter Wright
> Author of ADO.NET Novice To Pro, from Apress Inc.
>
>
>

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