replacing server question

[zxmax]

Greeting
here is our environment : windows 2000 server with windows Xp pro clients , (couple of windows 2000 pro).
we are having problems with our server, and we are temperarly replacing with another machine. (domain has a different name)
we moved all the necessary data over, with the right mapping,
now my question is when user loggin to the new server, i'm assuming all of their profile will replaced with a brand new profile, so they won't have acces to their emails .. destop icons , myDocuments folder ..etc

is there anyway that i could prevent this from happening , without the troulbe going to each machine and moving their profile over to their new one ?
cause we have to do another change when the original server get fixed ..

any ideas or thoughts, will be greatly appreciated

 

[markdmac]

Are you totally unable to join the new machine to the old domain?

There is a way to redirect the profiles via the registry after the user logs onto the new domain once. It would be really tough to automate. You will find the profile path under:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\sid number\ProfileImagePath.

I think you will probably end up doing this manually once. My suggestion would be to then join your old server to this new domain so you don't have to do it all over again.

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark

 

[zxmax]

Thanks, Mark,
sorry for the silly question , but how would i joing the 2 domains together,
so far i have one domain called: server1.com and the new one called server2.local

any resources or quick tips will be greatly appreciated,
Thanks again

 

[markdmac]

Prior to making a new domain you would simply have chosen to join the server to the domain like any Win2K/XP workstation. Then you would run DCPROMO to make it a DC in the same domain.

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark