xp pro local madatory profile

[red1965]

I am trying to make a user profile on an xp pro machine mandatory, ie, any icon/wallpaper changes they make will not be there after they log out and back in.

i have changed the users ntuser.dat file to ntuser.man but it just doesnt work. the changes remain after reboot.

any ideas please as this should be simple and is driving me crazy

 

[linney]

Are you missing any of the "mandatory" steps?

HOW TO: Assign a Mandatory User Profile in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307800#appliesto

This is something to be aware of too, if it applies in your situation?

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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx

 

[red1965]

Thanks for reply linney.

truth is no i havnt followed these steps. and the reason is that the 70-290 msce labsim i am working through doesnt say you have to. For a local madatory profile it just says you have to change the user's ntuser.dat to ntuser.man

so i have to confess to being a bit confused. It doesnt say anything about creating a shared folder for a local madatory file. Roaming mandatory files does require a shared server folder, granted!

If any one can clear this up for me i would be very garteful as it is frustrating!

 

[linney]

Trial and error" comes to mind. Try it both ways and see what happens, or does not happen?

"Mandatory profiles

A mandatory user profile is a preconfigured, read-only roaming user profile that administrators can use to specify settings for users. With a mandatory user profile, a user can modify the desktop, but any changes made are not saved when the user logs off. The next time the user logs on, the mandatory user profile set by the administrator is downloaded.

There is also a special type of mandatory profile known as a super-mandatory profile. Super-mandatory user profiles are similar to normal mandatory profiles, with the exception that users who have super-mandatory profiles cannot log on when the server that stores the mandatory profile is unavailable. Users with normal mandatory profiles can log on with the locally cached copy.

If the administrator renames the NTuser.dat file (the Windows Registry hive) on the server to NTuser.man, the profile becomes mandatory. The .man extension causes the user profile to be a read-only profile. User profiles become super-mandatory when the folder name of the profile path ends in .man; for example,

\\server\share\mandatoryprofile.man\."


Roaming user profile

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaming_user_profile

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=w...&ie=&oe=&redir_esc=&ei=zDn0S-XvMtGHkAWw6_HJDQ

 

[red1965]

At the moment i am not trying to setup roamimg profiles.

I just want to tie down a local profile on a pc.

Thanks for info though