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thanks silver dagger.... how do i go about creating a roamin profile then? W00D...what do you need to know? Ross

Hiya Guys, I posted a few days ago with problems setting up a windows 2000 domain involving a router too. Ive managed it all now and have upgraded the domain controller to windows server 2003. Now i need a little help setting it up the way i want it: All of the clients are running windows xp pro. I want them to be able to log onto the domain, and for the users home directory to be kept of the server, along with a roaming profile...so that they can log onto any computer and access their files/settings as if it were their own. Another problem Im having is that log ons seem to be taking a VERY long time...like...more than two minutes id estimate. Can anyone shine some light on this? Thanks in advance Ross

Duhmez, thanks for your help. i think i understand that. so...i use the DHCP console thingie on the Windows 2000 server. The default gateway should be set as the ip address of the router (..something like 192.168.1.1 ?) and DNS should be set to match the DNS of the ISP....now...how do I find that out? Thanks again... By the way, if it helps this crazy router box thing is from linksys. It is an ADSL Modem, Wireless Access Point/Router, with four port 10/100 switch (and i live in the UK) Rossco

Hi everyone, Until now Ive been happy using my computers in a peer to peer network. But now there are more of them (5 infact) and more people use them. Along with these computers theres is a broadband wireless router. Two of the computers are wireless laptops you see. What I would like to do is create a domain. One of the computers can function as a domain controller, authenticating user logons etc and also function as a fileserver, hosting user files so that they can be accessed from any computer on the network. Nothin too demanding you see? Well so I thought. Firstly I created a Windows 2000 local domain, but none of the client computers could "see" it. Eventually I thought it was something to do with DHCP servers. That clever wireless router box that I mentioned before also functions as a DHCP server, as does the newly created Domain Controller. I disabled the DHCP on the router and now the local domain works fine (lots of setting up to do, but logons are all being authnticated by the server). But now the internet doesnt work! It seems that disabling the routers DHCP stops the clients from accessing the broadband connection. How can I make the router work with the Windows DHCP and not its own? PLEASE HELP! Rossco