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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.
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.