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setting up roaming profiles

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jcandiff

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Jun 21, 1999
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I am a support tech. for a major software co and I'm currently mcp certified(2 tests from mcse) and i have a very simple yet disturbing question. How do you effectively set up roaming user profiles running Server PDC and Workstation and 95 clients. I have currently read about 6 different ways that this can be done (3 of which was in Sybex 1 in Transenders and a few others in other resources). I consider myself pretty well versed in NT but if frustrates me that i can't do something as simple as setting up a roaming profile. The most obvious method i've tried is to copy the profile to the server and modify the profile path in User's but when i go to a client and log on i get a message that his profile could not be loaded and a local profile will be loaded instead. What am i doing wrong?
 
when you set the users profile path did you do it through user manager.... first create a users$ share and give the users access to the share, then just type in the path \\myserver\users$\%username%????? in the user manager for domains, profile path.

if you create the user profile path in this way user manager sets the appropriate permissions for the user and creates the user directory based on the %username%. Then you can create the user profile (easiest way is simply by configuring the users machine while logged on as the user, get the machine the way you want it and when the user logs off the profile is sent to the server. you can then rename the user profile ntuser.dat to ntuser.man if you want the profile to be mandatory.

 
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