Small Business Server (Windows xp)

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I have Small Business Server on Windows NT 4.5 on my server and I want to setup a client on a Workstation running Windows XP

with no luck so far

Thanks in advance

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Can you be more specific? Which version of XP? XP Home can not be a member of a domain. I’m using XP Pro in an SBS 4.5 environment.

JP

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Hi JP

Yeah sorry about that, It’s XP professional!

Thanks

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What sort of problem? Is there a specific error message or symptom?

--Joe

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Hi JP

I did my usual routine I sent the set up flles from server to the client inserted the setup floppy on the client
the message I get is setup has detected windows 2000 on this machine you must setup manually, this what I cannot do

Thanks again

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GDay Braddy,
This caught me out at first to but I’ve done it a couple of times now. You can’t use the SBS Client Disk as you’ve discovered. The process is as follows:
Right click My Computer>Properties>Computer Name
“Network ID” button will open a wizard that leads you through the process
You need to enter the SBS DOMAIN NAME for both the user and the computer name
At some point you will be asked for a user name with permission to join the domain… you must enter an ADMINISTRATOR user name and password at this point.
Good Luck

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Hi There

Thanks for the response I don’t have any problem connecting the client to the server I can see everything, but
I keep getting the error popup, setup was unable to open the info file
server nameclientsresponseuserclioc.inf error code 0 x3 at line 8735944
If could just stop this popping up I would be happy

Thanks again

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GDay again…
Client info files are created on the SBS Server for each COMPUTER attached to the SBS Server and are referenced on login. They can be found on the server at : C:SmallBusinessCLIENTSResponse
If there is no folder for the new computers they can be created with the ADD COMPUTER wizard from the SBS Console or simply copy and rename an existing folder. If they already exist then you have an issue with security permissions.

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Gday to you, you beut

Renamed it and it worked a treat

Thanks

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