Introducing XP in Windows 2000 domain with NT clients only

[J. Foster]

Hi, I'm looking for some good advice to handling the following
situation.

We have a small domain with say 10 NTworkstations in a very secure
evironment, so ntconfig.pol is used and is very strict. Everhting
works OK and nice the way it is configured in ntconfig.pol.

The server is Winodws 2000 based and has AD enabled but is obviously
in mixed mode, with all these NT clients. I am asked to prepare the
migration of the NT4 workstations to XP. There is an sysprep image
available from our main corporate domain, but obviously I need to tune
things when I make this XP image/workstation part of the secure
smaller Windows 2000 domain.

Could it be possible to just enter regedit and adapt the pc to look
for and use the same ntconfig.pol that the NT4 users use ?
At the moment I am pretty sure that the XP pc is not using
ntconfig.pol on the server. It it not even giving members of domain
admins admin rights on the XP. Only the local administrator had
"admin" rights. I need to fix this pretty fast.

My company has not given training for more than 4 years so I lack this
specific knowledge regarding this NT-XP migration and the effect of
policies. I know I should not use ntconfig.pol because grouppolicies
is the way to go with AD but I'm not even supposed to maintain this
small domain in future. We're just looking for the shortest, least
effort in migrating.

Any advice how to let XP use the ntconfig.pol that is already in use
on this Windows 2000 domain with NT4 clients ?

Is altering this key all I need to do ?

HK_LM\system\current controlset\control\update\updatemode=2
HK_LM\system\current
controlset\control\update\networkpath=%logonserver%\netlogon

 

[Patti MacLeod]

Hi J. Foster,

Perhaps one of these newsgroups might be the more appropriate venue for your
question:

microsoft.public.windows.server.networking

microsoft.public.windows.server.migration



Regards,