Re: Company PC Win2k doesn't see Home WinXp

From: Mike (wxyz09_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/17/04


Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:21:54 -0500

Removed one of the PCs from the domain in network neighborhood and put it
into a workgroup.
Everything is ok now.

> if outlook.exe is running in the
> background, the next user won't be prompted for a profile

Good tip.

>and set up a VPN
> site link from that network to yours rather than using VPN individually on
> each computer.

Currently setup w/ VPN on each PC.

Nothing really to manage after setting up user accounts, which I was able to
do on the PC I removed from the domain.
No data will be saved on these pcs.

Mike

Mike

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Can you log into the computers w/the local admin acct and set them up in a
> workgroup?
>
> So they'll be using Exchange? Make sure you set up the Exchange server
> service in Outlook to prompt for credentials. You'll also need to create
> multiple Outlook profiles, one for each user on each computer, and tell
> Outlook to prompt for the profile. It's gonna be a bit of a PITA esp. if
> they don't close Outlook fully on exit - if outlook.exe is running in the
> background, the next user won't be prompted for a profile.
>
> Are you not going to be managing these computers at all, after all this?
Not
> backing up any data, etc? Because if you want to do that, I'd keep them in
> the domain and not have them use any local file shares....and set up a VPN
> site link from that network to yours rather than using VPN individually on
> each computer.
>



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