Active Directory Domain

[Kevin]

I have upgraded from XP-Home Ed. to XP-Professional. I
am wanting to create a DOMAIN. Steps from article,
Q308194 mentions "Active Directory Users and Computers"
in the path, START/PROGRAMS/Administrative Tools as the
way to perform this action. I can not find this option
under this path. For me to find Administrative Tools, I
have to follow the path, Control Panel/Performance and
Maintence/Administrative Tools. But once there, I do not
have the "Active Directory Users and Computers" option.
Any ideas???

[Ron Lowe]

"Kevin" > wrote in message
...
> I have upgraded from XP-Home Ed. to XP-Professional. I
> am wanting to create a DOMAIN. Steps from article,
> Q308194 mentions "Active Directory Users and Computers"
> in the path, START/PROGRAMS/Administrative Tools as the
> way to perform this action. I can not find this option
> under this path. For me to find Administrative Tools, I
> have to follow the path, Control Panel/Performance and
> Maintence/Administrative Tools. But once there, I do not
> have the "Active Directory Users and Computers" option.
> Any ideas???


To create a domain, you need to set up a domain controller
using either windows 2000 server, or windows server 2003.

Windows XP Pro can be a domain member, not a domain controller.

The options you discuss ( AD users and computers ) will be present on your
domain controller, once you set up the server and DCPROMO it to create the
domain.

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Best Regards,
Ron Lowe
MS-MVP Windows Networking