From: John Beckett 

Someone asked a question quite like this on the Compuserve winnt forum
recently. However, there were some crucial extra details. The person wanted
to study for W2000 certification. The advice to use W2000 Pro rather than
XP was simply so the person could concentrate on W2000 and learn the basic
concepts without the complications of the disconcerting differences between
XP and W2000. Plus other stuff like trying to administer a W2000 domain
from an XP computer. Simple, and essential for a real admin, but an
unnecessary complication for someone who is very new.

John


Chris Robinson  wrote in message
news::
> I was browsing a forum this morning as I often do and came across the
> post below:
>
> http://snurl.com/1cqd
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> "I am going to install and implement 2 Win2k Advanced Servers for file
> sharing, print server, and App Server. I went to a Win 2k Server
> training seminar and to make a long story short, was told that XP Pro
> will not work well with the Win 2k servers and that I should upgrade all
> my Win 95/98/ME's to Win 2k Pro and that I should downgrade all of my XP
> Pro's to Win 2k Pro. Is there any truth to this??"
> -------------------------------
>
> There aren't too many replies atm but the first reply to it was quite
> discouraging.  I'm ignoring the performance issues as this can easily be
> worked around with XP but the Win2k Server/ XP Client compatibility is a
> bit worring as I'm soon going to buy a new laptop for a small firm I
> look after - it was going to be XP Pro but the server is Win2k Server.
> Is there any truth in these problems that anyone knows?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris.
>

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