XP home migration to 2003 Server

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Bill Lampman

Hi,

I'm trying to turn a 7 machine peer-to-peer network running XP home into
a server based network. I know I have to upgrade the XP to Pro, but is there
a tutorial or instruction manual on how to do the migration from local XP
users
to server based network users ?

Bill
 
Hi,

Sorry if my decription of the problem was a little vague.

I have 7 PCs on a network running XP Home. All are in the same workgroup
and share files without a dedicated server. I want to migrate all of the
users who
log in locally to their machines over to a 2003 environment where all users
log in
to the server as a domain user NOT as a local user on their respective
machines.

How do I migrate the local user settings from XP home to the 2003 server
so
that users can login as domain users with all of their data (email, docs,
etc) located
on the server ?
 
You don't. XP home *can not* join a domain.
You must upgrade all the XP home users to XP pro if you wish them to log
onto the Server 2003 domain.


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Why don't you reread the complete thread - the OP already said he/she was
going to upgrade the Home PC's to Pro, the OP wants info on how to convert
the Profiles on the Home PC's to a Pro Domain Profile.

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