Profiles, roaming and roving profiles

[Armand Welsh]

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probably an older term the win95 team used, before discovering that it was
actually called roamining... :)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Radford" <martin at zamenhof.demon.co.uk>
To: "Armand Welsh" <armand at welshhome.org>
Cc: <ctrlsoft at dds.nl>; <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: Profiles, roaming and roving profiles


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> > > What is the difference between 'profiles','roaming
> > > profiles' and 'roving profiles' and which are supported by
> > > samba?
> >
> > A Roaving profile doesn't exist.  So I can't tell you what samba defines
it
> > as.
>
> An altavista search for:
> +roving +host:support.microsoft.com
>
> reveals that "roving profiles" do indeed exist.  However, it seems
> that Microsoft only use the term when referring to Windows 95.  The
> terms "roving profiles" and "roaming profiles" are synonymous (but
> "roving" tends to be used for Win95 only).
>
> Martin
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