>>>I bought a new computer but am keeping the old one, normally accessed via remote session from the new machine. Both have Windows XP.
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>>>I want them to share "My Documents" so that changes made in one machine are seen in the other. I believe this can be accomplished by setting the "Target Folder Location" for each machine's "My Documents" to the same folder in the server.
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>>>Are there any gotchas with this arrangement?
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>>Don't know. But maybe you could use a roaming profile instead: http://computertips.toups.info/roaming/RoamingXPPro.htm
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>Over the years I've tried setting up various clients with roaming profiles. The main problem has been that a profile contains at least My Documents, My Pictures, My Music and typically either a large Outlook .PST file or a large Outlook Express message store folder. In some cases logon times were 8-10 minutes while all those files were transferred.
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>OTOH it looks like Server 2008 AD addresses this issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaming_user_profile#Disadvantages_of_roaming_user_profiles

Hi,
I've only set it up on a few machines - but never experienced unacceptably high load times. OTOH it wasn't the type of environment where individual users tended to have much private data anyway. The idea of allowing redirects seems a good step....
Best,
Viv