From: John Cuccia 

One addition, when importing from a store, I don't think the account name
on the importing machine needs to match the account name used in the other.

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 21:30:56 -0500, John Cuccia  wrote:

>On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:49:22 -0700, Randall Parker
> wrote:
>
>>My goal: Get the XP Home box seeing the IE/OE files for mail to be able to
migrate
>>them over to the new machine. But I need to get the files that is for the NT
>>machine's Administrator user and migrate them to (I'm guessing) an account
that is
>>NOT called Administrator on the XP Home machine.
>
>You can burn the files to CD on the NT machine and then import them on
>the XP Home machine.
>
>Don't know which version of OE you are running, but on v6 you can
>right click on Inbox and select properties to see which folder the
>message database is stored in.  Copy all the files in that folder to a
>CD and put it in the new machine.  Open OE, click
>File->Import->Messages, pick the appropriate application (whichever
>version of OE is used on the NT machine) then Import mail from an OE
>store.  Browse to the folder on CD and you should be able to pull the
>messages right in.
>
>You can do the same thing over the network if you can get that part
>working.
>
>You'll also want to import the old OE address book.  On W2K and
>greater it lives in \Documents and Settings\UserName\Application
>Data\Microsoft\Address Book.  I'm not sure where it lives in NT, but
>you can search for a file with a .WAB extension to find it.
>
>Importing addresses is exposed by the same wizard you use to get
>messages.
>
>
>>
>>How can you find out what account you are logged in as in XP Home if you
never even
>>had to log in when it started up in the first place?
>>
>>
>>Randall Parker wrote:
>>
>>> The Administrator account exists in XP Home but you can't bring it up?
>>>
>>> Is Owner a different account than Administrator?
>>>
>>> WinXP Home won't let an account called Administrator to be created. It
>>> says one already exists. But on the User Accounts page under
the "or
>>> pick an account to change" area it only lists
"Owner" and not
>>> "Administrator".
>>>
>>> I'm trying to get an XP Home machine to have the same Administrator
>>> account and password as an existing NT box so that the XP Home box will
>>> be able to get at disk shares on the NT box...

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