vista and XP in the same work environment???

[Guest]

I am adding a workstation to our office and all of the other work stations
(12) use XP as the operating system through our server. Can I add a new
station running Vista without upgrading all of the other operating systems?
What are the risks/ramifications?

Thanks,

 

[Malke]

I am adding a workstation to our office and all of the other work stations
(12) use XP as the operating system through our server. Can I add a new
station running Vista without upgrading all of the other operating systems?
What are the risks/ramifications?

Thanks,

Certainly you can add the Vista machine without doing anything to the
other computers. I have a network with XP Pro/Home, Linux, Mac OS X, and
Vista. Without knowing anything more about your network (peer-to-peer,
domain?), that's all I can say.


Malke

 

[xfile]

Hi,

I guess it's a domain evnrionment as he said "[...]through our server".

But I am hesitate to give a definite answer as you probably know that people
do experience some problems but not all, and at least, I don't know under
what specific cirucumstances would problems come out.

I hate to give people wrong expectations and only to blame them for not
doing enough "homework" or "research" when they are back yelling for
problems.

 

[Malke]

Hi,

I guess it's a domain evnrionment as he said "[...]through our server".

But I am hesitate to give a definite answer as you probably know that people
do experience some problems but not all, and at least, I don't know under
what specific cirucumstances would problems come out.

I hate to give people wrong expectations and only to blame them for not
doing enough "homework" or "research" when they are back yelling for
problems.

We can make no assumptions about the OP's actual environment. I can't
tell you how many people call a pseudo-server a "server" even though
they run no actual server operating system. Also, we don't know 1) if a
server, what server OS; 2) if a server, domain or peer-to-peer. Not
everyone who uses a server sets up a domain.

Basically, there is no way to answer the OP's question without more
information from him which is why I didn't attempt to do it.


Malke

 

[xfile]

We can make no assumptions about the OP's actual environment. I can't tell

you how many people call a pseudo-server a "server" even though they run
no actual server operating system. Also, we don't know 1) if a server,
what server OS; 2) if a server, domain or peer-to-peer. Not everyone who
uses a server sets up a domain.

1. See I used the word "guess"?

Basically, there is no way to answer the OP's question without more
information from him which is why I didn't attempt to do it.

2. Below is your earlier reply and seems to me that you already answered the
question and that's why I suggested.

Certainly you can add the Vista machine without doing anything to the other
computers.

Hi,

I guess it's a domain evnrionment as he said "[...]through our server".

But I am hesitate to give a definite answer as you probably know that
people do experience some problems but not all, and at least, I don't
know under what specific cirucumstances would problems come out.

I hate to give people wrong expectations and only to blame them for not
doing enough "homework" or "research" when they are back yelling for
problems.

We can make no assumptions about the OP's actual environment. I can't tell
you how many people call a pseudo-server a "server" even though they run
no actual server operating system. Also, we don't know 1) if a server,
what server OS; 2) if a server, domain or peer-to-peer. Not everyone who
uses a server sets up a domain.

Basically, there is no way to answer the OP's question without more
information from him which is why I didn't attempt to do it.


Malke
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