having a user profile shared between computers

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i have 2 computers networked both with xp pro and i have
2 users, these 2 users have their own account but use
whatever computer happens to be free, is there a way to
share a user account over a network of 2 computers so a
user can access his own account regardless of what
computer he is using insted of having a seperate user
account per computer.

can this be done in xp alone or do i have to have
something like windows server 2003 to do this?
 
You cannot share the account. But you can create identical accounts on each
machine and share the same profile. Define the profile path in the account
properties.
 
You might be able to replace the default 'My Documents' directories, etc. with shortcuts pointing to a directory on the network. I did this successfully on win98 - haven't tried it yet on XP
 
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