[Samba] Vista - Profile - Local

[lmhelp]

Hi Alex, hi Charles, hi others,

Thank you for your answers.

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A little aside
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(I want to say that) if Microsoft provided people with:
- a great documentation about its "profile" concept
- and also, about its registry (name, use and possible
  values of the various keys)
it would prevent me (and others) from modifying the
registry in a hazardous way.
Having said that, learn that my laptop being new, I
can reinstall it if I happen to do something very wrong
with my registry.

For example, the key "State" in every profile:
it can have various values meaning specific things (I guess)
but I didn't manage to find the documentation for it
The only little bit of information I found is on that
web page:

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/94677/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-state-value-name-in-a-users-registry-profile.html

And it is totally insufficient.
I can do nothing with it.

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Just to try to agree on what I mean when I talk about
"(Windows) profiles"
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To me, a (Windows) profile is a set of specific 
settings concerning both:
- the various executables installed on the machine
  (for example: having a google toolbar in your web browser, 
	             having certain settings for your email client, ...)
- and also the operating system "itself"
  (for example: having a particular background image 
	             on your desktop, having certain settings for your 
	             folders display, having certain environment variables
	             set to particular values, ...).
Ok? Do we agree on that approximative definition?

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Just to try to be "straight" about my problem...
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As I said, I alternately log on my computer running XP
as:
- HOSTNAME\lmhelp
- or as DOMAINNAME_1\lmhelp
- or even as DOMAINNAME_2\lmhelp
(not at the same time).

With XP, in the three cases, I do manage to work with
the same settings (the same profile as described above).

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Charles' links
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Thank you, I read both of them.

First link:
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(XP Local User Profiles in a domain environment)

It is not about Vista.
And also, it doesn't solve the problem I evoke.
I just noticed, pardon me, a kind of "approximation" in
what is being said:

"Domain profile is like this 'username.domainname'
whereas local profile is known only by the user name".

    That is not generally true.
    When I logged on as "DOMAINNAME_1\lmhelp",
    a specific directory "C:\Users\lmhelp.DOMAINNAME_1" was created.
    But, modulo the registry change I did (cf. the end of my last post), 
    when I go to "System -> Advanced -> User Profiles", the profile 
    "DOMAINNAME_1\lmhelp" is said to be local.
  
    Apparently "domain profile" and "local profile" are not
    antinomic notions, contrary to what is said in the link.

Second link
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(Cached domain logon information)

This is interesting but is not exactly the problem I have 
because when my laptop is not part of the domain "DOMAINNAME_1",
I do not try to log on as "DOMAINNAME_1\lmhelp".
I log on to my local machine as "HOSTNAME\lmhelp".

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To Alex
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> [...] the two domains you're logging on to trust each other [...]

I'll try to understand what it means.

> Whatever you've managed to make XP do, I'm pretty sure
> it isn't a Microsoft-supported configuration - unless
> someone else here knows better?

Possibly, but with XP I've never had any problems with
that. On the contrary, it completely sastified me 
(apart from the fact I whish I didn't had to use Windows
operating systems...).

Again, thanks for your contributions and for the time you
dedicate to my problem.
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Lmhelp
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