Networking

Dear World4ch /computers

I was wondering If somone could tell me how to set up My user acounts on home network

I would like my family to acsess there own acounts with there Data from any PC in the house . I already have a Unit set up with Windows xp Pro for the Main computer witch will hold all the data for the users in there own area but how can i set up the network so they can acsess this computer as easy as sining into another computer on my network.

thanx from SAK

I have also posted this on /g/ my mistake and i apoligise

Depends on exactly what you want to do.

If you just want each user to have their own folder for storing files (ie. using the "main" computer as a file server), it's easy to just create a folder for each user, set the access permissions appropriately, then simply map a network drive letter to the appropriate folder for that user (a simple logon script with a NET USE command will suffice here).

If you want a more complex level of user management, such as having their desktop settings, bookmarks and other user data move from PC to PC, you're going to want to make a domain-based network (XP cannot be made into a domain controller - you'll need Server 2003 for that). You then create Active Directory objects for each user, and enable roaming user profiles so their settings get copied from the server each time they log on, then copied back to the server when they log off. You can also use group policies on the server to, among many other things, redirect folders such as My Documents to locations on the server, so the user doesn't even have to think about specifying their personal network drive or directory - they just save in My Documents as usual and it goes to the file server instead of the local hard disk. A domain-based network is much more involved than a simple workgroup-based setup, but very much more controllable and flexible.

or use linux, lol

tl;dr

>>3
He doesn't want to use Linux, he wants to use applications. No, I don't mean compiling them either, I mean using.

Thank you I will have to get server 2003 Thankes

>>6
Get a book on it too. It's not that it's a difficult system to use or anything, but you do need to have a basic understanding of the concepts it uses, such as how Active Directory works.

>>5
Because, you know, no one has ever come up with the idea of distributing precompiled Linux packages.

>>8
Because, you know, they don't have 10% the stuff some people need, and when you want to get something else, you'll run in all sorts of trouble.

>>9
Stop trolling, you know nothing. Take your stupidity to one of the many lunix vs windoze threads that already exist on this board.

>>9
Uh, Debian has the most packages of any Linux distro, around 17000.