[ajpriest]

Hi all,

Presently I have 5 pc's, all have logon accounts built in and range from 98, 2000 to XP SP1. I would like to setup a Win 2003 server that MS have kindly given me (as a student).

I want to setup the server to control the access of users on my home network. Which ever machine I (or the kids) log onto, it will load a roaming profile.

I did give it a try but it wanted a domain address like www.microsoft.com, this I do not have, I just want it on my internal private network.

Can anyone assist before I try setting this up again?

Regards,

AJ

[theefool]

You should be able to create a domain address and link it to your server. Don't quote me on this, since its been 5 years since I've done any of this. Anyway, that domain address can be anything, like homenetwork.com or something similar. I remember doing something like this back when I tested 2k advanced server back in 1999 or 2000. I also had to install DNS, for all this to work.

Also, for your win98 boxes...check out: http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/Domain/win98.html

This link will describe how to get win98 to join your domain.

[ajpriest]

Thanks,

I shall try that.

I also found a couple of tutorials at:

http://www.petri.co.il/install_windows_2003.htm
http://www.visualwin.com/

and finally, although it's for 2000, I'm hoping it will be similar for 2003: http://www.activewin.com/win2000/step_by_step/infrastructure/serversteps1.shtml

These seem to backup what you have said. I tried doing this before but it said something along the lines of the domain not being accessable.

Hopefully this time!!

I will keep you posted.

Regards,

AJ

[peterh]

BTW, Windows 9x machines cannot 'join' a domain as such but can authenticate against a domain and access resources. Roaming profiles will not work either.

A small warning, roaming profiles may stop working if trying to logon to different machines with different OSs due to differences in registry layouts.