How to switch off roaming profiles...

[Gilson de Paiva]

Hello All,
Well ...
First of all run the M$ user mananger and delete any content that might
exist on the field "User  Profile Path:" of the user that  you want
disable the roaming profile;
After this, on a NT Server machine WITH SP4 or bigger, run the
application "Poledit" and create a machine with the name of the one that
you want not to save or generate any roaming profile ( or use the
"Default Computer" if  you want this rule to be applied on all stations
);
Change the parameter "Choose Profile Default Operation" to "Use Local
Profile" ( This only exist on SP4 or bigger );
Save everything whith the name "ntconfig.pol" on the "netlogon" share
of  the machine that authenticates the user;

If you want, using NT as your workstation, the user himself can run
Control Panel / System applet and on the User Profiles tab change
his/her type of profile, from roaming to local.
PS: The user must be at least a member of "Advanced Users" group at the
moment of this operation.

Hope I helped ...


Phil Burch wrote:

> If your clients are running Windows 9x, roaming profiles can be turned

off
> in the passwords control panel.
>
> If they are running NT, you probably need to do a registry hack which
I
> can't remember right now.. Someone must - or it might be in the
archive.
>
> Phil Burch
> Network Administrator
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steffen Ullrich [mailto:steffen at easybrowse.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 3:48 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject: Howto switch off roaming profiles
>
> while everyone seems to have problems using
> roaming profiles I have them running, but like
> them switched off. Background:
>
> We have a linux server here using samba2.0.6 in
> share mode. Then we have an old NT server (4.0SP3)
> which only does logon and wins. I want to replace
> this server, because the company is growing and
> we don't like to buy more user licenses for the
> NT server. It looks like they never used roaming
> profiles, but whenever I try to setup the samba
> server as PDC (in user mode on a different IP then
> the share mode server) it tries to use them. I've
> tried disabling the profiles share, the logon path
> etc. parameter, but then it still tries to use
> roaming profiles (but complains that it can't access
> them). Any ideas?
>
> Related to this: I like to take the users settings
> on the machines into the new domain (Right now it
> creates a new profile). What's the best way to do this?



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