Windows 95 roaming profiles 1

[Zelandakh]

Someone once told me that it is possible (but a bit fiddly) to have roaming user profiles (a la NT WS) using 95 as a client with NT Server.<br>
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Anyone tried this? Failing that, I only want to be able to have a user log onto any 95 machine and access their email. Shortcut to Outlook is for whichever person I set up and anyone else cannot log onto email.

 

[MasterRacker]

1. Enable user profiles on the Win95 station: Control Panel&gt;Passwords&gt;User Profiles. Choose how you want them to work and reboot.<br>
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2. Set the profile to roam through the user's home folder:<br>
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REGEDIT4<br>
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Network\Logon]<br>
&quot;UseHomeDirectory&quot;=dword:00000001<br>
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After a reboot you should see a USER.DAT in their home folder.<br>
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I don't have the exact registry settings for the roaming profiles as that was developed for me by our parent company and I just run a .exe file. Since we're in the process of retiring 95 I've never dug into it. If you need to roll this to a lot of stations there is a utility called &quot;RegSnap&quot; available on hotfiles.com that you could use to take registry snapshots before and after step 1. This is a great utility that can automatically generate redo and undo .reg files easily for this kind of thing. Highly recommended.