Local profiles for specific users?

Vance Lankhaar vance at digital-host.net
Fri Sep 7 19:59:33 GMT 2001


On September  7, 2001 15:27, Simo Sorce wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 02:25:11PM -0500, Steven French wrote:
>> Wouldn't this be just a minor change to the pdb_get_profile_path routine
>> or to the SAM_ACCOUNT initialization and not be registry related?
>
>Hi, steven.
>It will require you to set a share onevery workstation where the system
>can "download" the profile to put it in the C:\WIN...\Profiles
>
>The difference between Local profiles and Roaming Profiles (as far as I know
>from experience) is that Local Profiles are stored locally in the Profiles
>directory and do not get copied at any logon, while roaming profiles get
>copied any time from the location specified by the relative field in users
>account info.

This is correct, as far as my networking experiences show - and mandatory 
profiles are the same as roaming profile, execept that the profile does NOT 
get copied back at the end of a user session.

Vance Lankhaar
Prince Charles Secondary School
vance at digital-host.net
vance at pcsscreston.ca




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