Roaming Profiles Help

[Ext User(Jamie)]

Hi, we have a few computers mostly XP home and 2 XP Pro with 3 linux
file servers. What i would like is to have it so people could log onto
any othe windows computers and it qould grab their profile info and
make it useabel on whatever com[puter they are on. At present i need
to have a user profile setup on each computer. 9 users x 7 users makes
for a major headache at times. While all the files are neatly stored
on the *nix boxes, it's a majot pain in the butt maintaining all the
computers. I've heard and seen roaoming profiles, but have no clue.
Any info, is greatly appreciated :)


Thanks in Advance
J

[Ext User(Uncle Bully)]

"Jamie" <fakejamien@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, we have a few computers mostly XP home and 2 XP Pro with 3 linux
> file servers. What i would like is to have it so people could log onto
> any othe windows computers and it qould grab their profile info and
> make it useabel on whatever com[puter they are on. At present i need
> to have a user profile setup on each computer. 9 users x 7 users makes
> for a major headache at times. While all the files are neatly stored
> on the *nix boxes, it's a majot pain in the butt maintaining all the
> computers. I've heard and seen roaoming profiles, but have no clue.
> Any info, is greatly appreciated :)


Roaming Profiles are Windows Domain thing.

Since neither XP home or Linux (AFAIK) don't support full Windows domain
membership, it won't work.



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> J

[Ext User(Googler)]

"Uncle Bully" <wakeupcall@optushome.com.au.Remove> wrote in message
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> "Jamie" <fakejamien@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:or9ms19b3228kfbh687l8gh51aqoqc35a3@4ax.com...
>> Hi, we have a few computers mostly XP home and 2 XP Pro with 3 linux
>> file servers. What i would like is to have it so people could log onto
>> any othe windows computers and it qould grab their profile info and
>> make it useabel on whatever com[puter they are on. At present i need
>> to have a user profile setup on each computer. 9 users x 7 users makes
>> for a major headache at times. While all the files are neatly stored
>> on the *nix boxes, it's a majot pain in the butt maintaining all the
>> computers. I've heard and seen roaoming profiles, but have no clue.
>> Any info, is greatly appreciated :)
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> Roaming Profiles are Windows Domain thing.
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> Since neither XP home or Linux (AFAIK) don't support full Windows domain
> membership, it won't work.

A linux server can be a domain controller and do roaming profiles on NT
based systems.

You're right though about XPhome. You cannot connect to a domain, but I'm
not 100% sure on changing the path of the profile.

It would take a long time to log on and off each time if you were able to
move the local profile to a network location.


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>> Thanks in Advance
>> J
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