XP Clients on a Windows 2000 Server Managed Network

[soundguy]

Hello,

I have upgraded all our clients to Win XP Pro, and then last weekend upgraded the servers from NT to Win 2000 Server.

However, the computers are not found in Active directory, but all the users are OK.

If I was to configure the computers to a workgroup, and then configure them back to be a member of the domain, the computer is then added to AD, but the users profiles are then lost, and a new profile is created. Which I do not want.

I can add the computer manually to AD but the trust errors in the PDC system log are still occuring.

How can I add a computer manually without doing the above.

Thanks
Phil

 

[brontosaurus]

how about temporarily going with roaming profiles until all your machines are registered?

 

[GlenJohnson]

Ipconfig /RR? Glen A. Johnson
Johnson Computer Consulting
MCP W2K
glen@johnsoncomputers.us

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[soundguy]

Hello,

How do roaming profiles work?

And also what does glen mean about ipconfig /rr?
Ive never heard of the switch RR.

Thanks

 

[brontosaurus]

you need to go into the user's account in AD users and computers and set up a roaming profile under the profile tab. make a share on one of your servers that everyone can access, create directories for all your users, and point their profiles to the respective directories using a UNC value.