This is driving me crazy... I am trying to set up a XP image for our PC's. We are in a Novell environment using a dynamic local user policy. When I set up previous Windows 2000 machines I had no problems logging in as myself, setting up the PC then copying my profile over as the default user profile. Also all of the settings I made for the workstation in the MMC worked. On the XP machine when I make changes in the MMC (like add logoff to start menu, remove my documents from desktop etc...) the next time I reboot and log back in all of the settings are gone. Can anyone help me with this??
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MMC Settings Not Taking Effect
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Also:
Also, your way of duplicating the Default Profile can lead to problems.
Watch out for:
You could be creating essentially the same issue. It affects a lot of XP features if the Administrator profile is being copied.
The approved fashion:
Best,
Bill Castner
Also, your way of duplicating the Default Profile can lead to problems.
Watch out for:
You could be creating essentially the same issue. It affects a lot of XP features if the Administrator profile is being copied.
The approved fashion:
Best,
Bill Castner
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Verify that local group policies are not disabled:
Open the Group Policy snap-in.
Double-click Computer Management.
Right-click Local Computer Policy.
Click to clear the Disable user configuration settings and Disable computer configuration settings check boxes.
I do not see this anywhere. Is this becuase we are not using AD?
Open the Group Policy snap-in.
Double-click Computer Management.
Right-click Local Computer Policy.
Click to clear the Disable user configuration settings and Disable computer configuration settings check boxes.
I do not see this anywhere. Is this becuase we are not using AD?
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No, I am saying that you should leave the settings along ("No Setting"
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That is the default. If different, change it.
Your issue has nothing to do with this setting unless it was incorectly set. Your issue has to do with my earlier suggestions about Group Policy, and the difference between user and machine (computer) settings.
And how they can/or will not be, duplicated through the Default User.
This is not a Group Policy problem. Forum member cismaxz was referring to a very rare problem.
Your issue is in the duplication of the Administrator profile as the Default User profile, and I covered this in my first posting to you.
.That is the default. If different, change it.
Your issue has nothing to do with this setting unless it was incorectly set. Your issue has to do with my earlier suggestions about Group Policy, and the difference between user and machine (computer) settings.
And how they can/or will not be, duplicated through the Default User.
This is not a Group Policy problem. Forum member cismaxz was referring to a very rare problem.
Your issue is in the duplication of the Administrator profile as the Default User profile, and I covered this in my first posting to you.
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The settings are not working correctly even before copying the profile to the default user.
I logged in to the PC locally using the admin account. Made changes to the policy logged out, then logged in locally using my account. The settings were still there and everything worked fine. However when I logged back out and logged in to Netware all of the settings were gone again.
I logged in to the PC locally using the admin account. Made changes to the policy logged out, then logged in locally using my account. The settings were still there and everything worked fine. However when I logged back out and logged in to Netware all of the settings were gone again.
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How does the logon occur?
Are you passing straight through to Windows at the same time, or is the logon to Windows a separate process from the Netware logon?
If you could too, check under Explorer the Permissions set on c:\windows\system32\Group Policy
Are you passing straight through to Windows at the same time, or is the logon to Windows a separate process from the Netware logon?
If you could too, check under Explorer the Permissions set on c:\windows\system32\Group Policy
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