Single XP Account for local and domain user

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Pete Wright

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.
 
Hi Pete,

The best thing you can do is, to logon on your Windows XP box into domain.
This will give you a new user profile. Next logout, login as administrator
and go to Control Panel/System/Advanced tab and select user profiles. There
click Copy To option and copy your profile to the location of the domain
user. In the permitted to use elect your domain account. This will copy all
your user settings to the new profile.

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Regards

Matjaz Ladava, MCSE (NT4 & 2000)
(e-mail address removed)
http://ladava.com
 
To my knowledge you can't replicate the entire profile.
What you can do is copy certain aspects of your original
local profile to your new domain user profile.

If you have only one local account with admin rights you
will need to create a second account or you will get
sharing violations.

Once logged in with the second admin account you can copy
things such as Favorites, My Documents, Desktop, Start
Menu and Application Settings to your new profile.

You can also add these files to All Users and Default as
you see fit.
 
That's great guys. Thank for all the great suggestions and advice!


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Peter Wright
Author of ADO.NET Novice To Pro, from Apress Inc.


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I did it the easy way, i simply copied the contents of my old user directory
to the new one while logged on as administrator and removed the old one and
deleted the old user directory. Worked great :)
 
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