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I found out by accident that we have a number of our Windows XP Pro machines on our domain that a regular user can log in right over top of an existing user without administrator privileges on the domain or the local machine. At first I thought it might be because one of the laptops was formatted fat32 rather than NTFS, but since then I have found a couple that exhibited the same behavior that were NTFS. On these machines in question, if the existing user has locked their machine, we can come along with a regular user account and log them off and us on user that regular user account. Has anybody seen this before, and know how to fix it??

I have been getting more complaints from users about certain older word documents (ones with our company logo in it) taking a long time to load. We had recently replaced one of our file servers. Apparently, these documents were based off of a letter.dot file that was on the old server. The same file is on the new server in the same path, but the server name is different. The documents in question are on the users local machine. If you open them with Wordpad, they open up right away. If they are saved in an RTF format, they can then be opened with Word with no issues. I've tried copying the letter.dot file down to my local machine and adding it to my global templates, but that does not resolve the problem. Any thoughts or suggestions are most welcome. Update: I find that if I open one of the offending documents in Word, then attach the letter.dot and save it, that fixes that particular document. However, I would have to do that with literally hundreds of documents. Microsoft says I can create a VB script to loop through each folder and change the server name, OR rename the server. Renaming the server is not really an option, as all of the user folders are there as well as all of the network printers. Users have become accustomed to have a folder shortcut on their desktop as opposed to a mapped drive. Guess I'm asking for a a miracle.

I am currently in the process of building a new 2003 member server to replace our old (hardware wise) 2003 file server. The original server hosts several network printers and about 300 individual user folders. All of the users have a shortcut to their own folder on the desktop of their PCs. No mapped drives. I don't know why my predecessor set it up this way, but it may be because many of our users are using network resources via a site to site VPN (Watchguard). The current plan is to move all of the user folders, reinstall the printers with the same share names, then take down the old server. I then hope to rename the new server to the old server's name. I'm wondering though if the shortcuts to folders on the users desktops will still work or will they have to browse to the server, and then create new shortcuts. Same thing with the printers. Will everyone have to re-install the printers even though the share names and the server name will be the same. Any suggestions welcome, but management wants to keep things the same so users won't be confused.