Active directory in XP Pro?

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Patrick

Does anyone know if there is a way to have XP use active
directory services for shares? because im not really in
the mood to buy 2000 server.

-pat
 
-----Original Message-----
Does anyone know if there is a way to have XP use active
directory services for shares? because im not really in
the mood to buy 2000 server.

-pat
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Not sure if I understand your question correctly, but we
have Win XP pc's as members of an win2k AD directory
service.

Read this Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 298444

The bit I don't understand is "not really in the mood to
buy 2000 server" How else would you implement AD?
 
-----Original Message-----


Not sure if I understand your question correctly, but we
have Win XP pc's as members of an win2k AD directory
service.

Read this Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 298444

The bit I don't understand is "not really in the mood to
buy 2000 server" How else would you implement AD?


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Yes i know it can be incorperated into an existing forest, but If I want
to use its file sharing abilities to combine multple shared folders on the
various drives all into one master share, and then serve that master
share to other computers/ applications. Can that be done with XP or do
I have to use 2000 server or some Linix varrient?
I heard it is possible somehow... but i dont know how reliable i would
call the source.., he was saying somehting aobut the "my shared
folders" directories being published in AD, and XP can do it but will
only support 2 clients... but Like i said I dont know if i trust my
source...


-Pat
Thanks for any help!
 
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