Profiles, roaming and roving profiles

[Armand Welsh]

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there are essentially three types of profiles for NT

Local, Roaming, & Mandatory

Microsoft defines them as:
(see Microsoft KnowledgeBase articles Q161334, Q185587, Q185588, Q185589,
Q158590,Q185591 - Guide To Windows NT 4.0 Profiles and Policies (Parts
1-6) )

Local Profile
A local profile is specific to a computer. A user who has a local profile
on a particular computer can gain access to that profile only while logged
on to that computer.

Roaming Profile
A roaming profile is stored on a network share and can be accessed from
any computer. A user who has a roaming profile can log on to any computer
for which that profile is valid and access the profile. (Note that a
profile is only valid on the platform for which it was created-for
example, a Windows NT 4.0 profile cannot be used on a Windows 95
computer.)

Mandatory Profile
A mandatory profile is a preconfigured roaming profile that the user
cannot change. In most cases, these are assigned to a person or a group of
people for whom a common interface and standard configuration is required.


A Roaving profile doesn't exist.  So I can't tell you what samba defines it
as.
----- Original Message -----
From: <ctrlsoft at dds.nl>
To: <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 4:19 AM
Subject: Profiles, roaming and roving profiles


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> Hi,
>
> I have been reading the samba site and the docs. Everything
> works fine here, except I get the message 'Couldn't load
> your profile' when trying to log in.
>
> What is the difference between 'profiles','roaming
> profiles' and 'roving profiles' and which are supported by
> samba?
>
> Jelmer
>
>
>