Vista - vista and XP in the same work environment???

I am adding a workstation to our office and all of the other work stations
(12) use XP as the operating system through our server. Can I add a new
station running Vista without upgrading all of the other operating systems?
What are the risks/ramifications?

Thanks,

JTP wrote:
> I am adding a workstation to our office and all of the other work stations
> (12) use XP as the operating system through our server. Can I add a new
> station running Vista without upgrading all of the other operating systems?
> What are the risks/ramifications?
>
> Thanks,

Certainly you can add the Vista machine without doing anything to the
other computers. I have a network with XP Pro/Home, Linux, Mac OS X, and
Vista. Without knowing anything more about your network (peer-to-peer,
domain?), that's all I can say.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Hi,

I guess it's a domain evnrionment as he said "[...]through our server".

But I am hesitate to give a definite answer as you probably know that people
do experience some problems but not all, and at least, I don't know under
what specific cirucumstances would problems come out.

I hate to give people wrong expectations and only to blame them for not
doing enough "homework" or "research" when they are back yelling for
problems.



"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> JTP wrote:
>> I am adding a workstation to our office and all of the other work
>> stations (12) use XP as the operating system through our server. Can I
>> add a new station running Vista without upgrading all of the other
>> operating systems? What are the risks/ramifications?
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> Certainly you can add the Vista machine without doing anything to the
> other computers. I have a network with XP Pro/Home, Linux, Mac OS X, and
> Vista. Without knowing anything more about your network (peer-to-peer,
> domain?), that's all I can say.
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

xfile wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I guess it's a domain evnrionment as he said "[...]through our server".
>
> But I am hesitate to give a definite answer as you probably know that people
> do experience some problems but not all, and at least, I don't know under
> what specific cirucumstances would problems come out.
>
> I hate to give people wrong expectations and only to blame them for not
> doing enough "homework" or "research" when they are back yelling for
> problems.

We can make no assumptions about the OP's actual environment. I can't
tell you how many people call a pseudo-server a "server" even though
they run no actual server operating system. Also, we don't know 1) if a
server, what server OS; 2) if a server, domain or peer-to-peer. Not
everyone who uses a server sets up a domain.

Basically, there is no way to answer the OP's question without more
information from him which is why I didn't attempt to do it.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

> We can make no assumptions about the OP's actual environment. I can't tell
> you how many people call a pseudo-server a "server" even though they run
> no actual server operating system. Also, we don't know 1) if a server,
> what server OS; 2) if a server, domain or peer-to-peer. Not everyone who
> uses a server sets up a domain.


1. See I used the word "guess"?

> Basically, there is no way to answer the OP's question without more
> information from him which is why I didn't attempt to do it.

2. Below is your earlier reply and seems to me that you already answered the
question and that's why I suggested.

>Certainly you can add the Vista machine without doing anything to the other
>computers.


"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> xfile wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I guess it's a domain evnrionment as he said "[...]through our server".
>>
>> But I am hesitate to give a definite answer as you probably know that
>> people do experience some problems but not all, and at least, I don't
>> know under what specific cirucumstances would problems come out.
>>
>> I hate to give people wrong expectations and only to blame them for not
>> doing enough "homework" or "research" when they are back yelling for
>> problems.
>
> We can make no assumptions about the OP's actual environment. I can't tell
> you how many people call a pseudo-server a "server" even though they run
> no actual server operating system. Also, we don't know 1) if a server,
> what server OS; 2) if a server, domain or peer-to-peer. Not everyone who
> uses a server sets up a domain.
>
> Basically, there is no way to answer the OP's question without more
> information from him which is why I didn't attempt to do it.
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User