Is there a cookbook way to connect a user to an AD domain and keep existing applications & desktop ?

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Al Dykes

I've set up a SBS/w2k AD domain and I've been setting up the desktop
clients as fresh installations. It's working fine. The business has an
application that requires a domain-based system.

The owner of the company I'm doing this for has a good XP/pro laptop
and he wants to to access this application (a very reasonable
request). He's got sooo much one-off software installed on this
machine that a reinstallation isn't practical. There are too
additional complications; He's complete;y and utterly non-technical so
I have been unable to explain what connecting to a domain means, and
he's either in his office with the door closed, or traveling on
business. It's real hard to get time.

The one time I tried to connect an machine to a domain and fix up the
ownership and permissions tof the files and apps on the C drive urned
into a complete mess.

I'm tempted to try Terminal Services, something I've never played
with. The other approach might to use the mltiple-login facility in
XP and let him hot-key between his existing desktop and
domain-connected one.

Is there a way to migrate an existing local account and all
the stuff it has on C: to a domain account ?

Thanks
 
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