A question about NT Domains

[Paul Leach]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [mailto:lkcl at switchboard.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 1998 5:04 AM

> On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Paul Leach wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: William Stuart [mailto:william at hae.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 12:28 PM

> > 
> > Both NT and Win95 support serial reuse (many users, just 
> one at a time)
> > pretty well (in my obviously biased opinion -- is that 
> IMOBO?). All the
> 
> um... not quite.  firstly.
> 
> microsoft products, in my experience (internet destroyer 4, 
> net meeting
> 2.1, outlook express) are very good at sorting out their act 
> by storing
> user preferences in the correct place in the registry, such 
> that a profile
> actually _is_ a profile.
> 

[snip]

> is this a failure for microsoft to communicate the user preferences
> capability to developers?

In some cases, e.g. Netscapes, I believe it was a desire to have Nav vary as
little as possible between platforms -- and there is no registry on Unix.

> 
> secondly.
> 
> the registry settings in USER.DAT or NTuser.DAT overwrite the previous
> user's settings, leaving any settings _not_ in the current 
> user's profile
> as-is.  what _should_ happen is that the old user's settings should be
> totally wiped out prior to putting the new settings in.
> 
> it is therefore possible for one user to screw up subsequent user's
> settings.

I don't understand this. USER.DAT will be a different file for different
users. I think that what you say should only happen is a second user comes
along and uses the same account as the first.

Paul