Dual Boot XP Pro x32 and Vista x64 on SBS2003 network

[Guest]

I am testing a dual boot on a machine on a SBS2003 network.
Both the 32-bit XP Pro installation and the 64-bit Vista installation went
perfectly. Both appear to run just fine after the initial registration on the
network.
The problem is that the server wants to recognize just one machine and locks
the operating system to the last machine registered. To clarify: I boot to XP
Pro, give the machine a name and register it on the network. I then boot to
Vista, give the machine a name and register it on the network, and SBS2003
removes the machine name given under XP Pro and lists the VISTA name.
This would all be fine, except that SBS2003 now lists the operating system
as Vista even when booting to XP Pro, and network functionality is now only
partial. Deleting the Vista machine name and re-registering while in XP Pro
resets the OS assigned to the machine, and networking is once again fully
functional.
Is there some trick that would get SBS2003 to recognize the XP Pro
installation as one machine and the Vista installation as a different
machine? Setting different static IPs on each installation perhaps?

 

[Guest]

0. Yes use different IP's. Actually on a bit of a tangent I would highly
reccomend the use of the DHCP server included with SBS2003. Static IP's
should be for network aplicances such as printers, web servers, File servers,
and DC's. A properly planned network can make you life WAY easier... But I
digress
1. If you are using the same workstation name across the two instances then
that is your problem... When you add it to your AD you are resetting the
workstations machine account with the info for the particular instance in
question. So make sure they are using different Netbios Names (ie
Workstation-XP and Workstation-Vista)
2. You might want to run "sysprep" on your XP-32 instance. This utility is
available from MS as a free download. This application is meant for those
deploying an XP across a large network from a common OS image (prepared with
Ghost etc) It will rerun the last couple stages of setup and reset your
workstation SID ensuring that it is unique in your environment.

Hope this helps