Domains...
well i decided to play around with having a domain controller on my network..... now..... i see how it works.... but i don't see the point exactly..... i mean if your using 95/98 workstations you can make them hard to get into by forceing them to validate your logon with a domain server.... and you can set 95/98 to not use seperate profiles for different users.....
ok.... heres the situation..... say you have a huge network... with like 200 + users.....
and you want each user to be able to use a different workstation... but you don't want to have to wait for the work station to create a new user profile each time they log on for the first time.....
and you don't want to waste space for 200 + users....
can you have it so that say a domain user could log on to a NT machine but have NT not create a new profile for them? kinda like 95/98 does.... only just for domain users..... liek still make new profiles for local users.... but not domain users.......
if thats confusiing ask questions to help clarify.... also i'm new to domains, so this is a learning expericance.....
ok.... heres the situation..... say you have a huge network... with like 200 + users.....
and you want each user to be able to use a different workstation... but you don't want to have to wait for the work station to create a new user profile each time they log on for the first time.....
and you don't want to waste space for 200 + users....
can you have it so that say a domain user could log on to a NT machine but have NT not create a new profile for them? kinda like 95/98 does.... only just for domain users..... liek still make new profiles for local users.... but not domain users.......
if thats confusiing ask questions to help clarify.... also i'm new to domains, so this is a learning expericance.....
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This is what it sounds like: you want the usrs be be able to logon normally @ any machine, but not have to create e profile @ each one?
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the romaing profile might be it.... but when a user logs on a workstation they haven't before i dont' want them to wait for a new profile to be created and i don't want the profiles stored on the workstation.....
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ok roaming profiles seem to be it.... plus domain user.... but how do you make the domain user be a roaming profile?
anyways i guess what it is that i want isn't what windows does.... in that a domain is simply a list of users... and that way you don't have to create a new user on each machine you just wait for the profile to be created.....
what i wanted was like..... in the domain to be able to set users as either admins or guests.. an admin user, when logging on the workstation would create a profile.... but when a guest user would log on it would simply pull up a guest profile instead.....
Situation: School network..... techs and teachers have admin accounts and students have guest accounts.... so when a student logs on to a workstation... no new profile is created but when a teacher or tech logs on a new profile is created...
i'm guessing that nothing does that .. i think i have what i wanted to know.... i want to know more about roaming profiles though
its something to do with time like..
net [somthign about syncing the time] EHHS401
might as well be processed in china.
That's what I see when I logon over a domain in XP. Unless I'm missing something. Might have to check.
~Duff
anyways does XP not show the "applying your settings" or "saving your settings" or "logging off" messages when its loging on to a domain? i've noticed the XP PC's at school dont' show them.....
anyways.... so this topic revised: does anyone know a way to get NT to use a default profile, and not create new ones? so that an admin coudl go and set the profile how they wanted and then thats what it would always use and it wouldn't create a new profile?
I don't know. The PC's that your using might have the ability to change the settings.
I know the ones I use have that cut off. The desktop is deleted (if I save anything to it), all settings are changed back when I log off.
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anyways i found out how to set a user to use a certain profile on the domain... and the test user works great... i just copied the default profile to the domain and set it to use but when i set another user to use the same default profile windows 2000 says i don't have permission and makeing a temp profile.... @_@
and how do i tell it to "disregaurd changes" ?