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by djf

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I have an employee leaving and a new employee coming in, and I want to retain the exact same XP Pro settings on the workstation as I had for the former employee, but I want the new employee to be able to log in under their own user name and password. The server is running NT4 SP 6.0a. Can I simply rename the user account and change the password on the NT server? How will this affect the XP Pro settings?

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by griz1975

How is the user logging into the workstation? Is this a network account or local XP account? Are you running active directory or NT domain architecture?

by griz1975

How is the user logging into the workstation? Is this a network account or local XP account? Are you running active directory or NT domain architecture?

by yetanotheradmin

Regardless of whether this is a local or domain account renaming it and changing the password will work but may leave your audit trail looking a little confusing. Remember though that it will retain ALL settings, email, home folder etc.

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