Clare Snyder
January 10th 04, 12:49 AM
Roaming profiles are working fine on XP clients - but not
on 98SE.
What needs to be done on Win98 workstations to use roaming
profiles effectively???
>-----Original Message-----
>Have you tried roamin user profiles? Std. solution for
>users who share PC's, which sounds like everyone on your
>network! But you should only need to have one profile
>per user, and store the profile on the network in a
>dedicated "profiles" shared profile, or in the users
>homefolder. So you might have to consider some space
>issues on your HD, but otherwise that should be the
>answer for you.
>
>Hope it helps.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I have 2 situations where I have NT servers (set up as
>>domain servers) serving a mixed network of Win98SE and
>XP
>>Pro workstations.
>>The Win98 side is solid, and working well. Users log in,
>>and according to their username have their personal file
>>directory on the server mapped to them (using
>putinenv.exe
>>and winset.exe in the login.bat).
>>
>>The XP users work fine too, with one serious caveat.
>>My users do not always use the same computer - and we
>>have over 20 users in the one setup, with about 10
>>compters. That is potentially over 200 profiles when we
>>get everything upgraded to XP.
>>
>>I NEED to be able to have any user log on to any XP
>>workstation without adding the user and profiles to the
>>workstation. Yet I need each user to log in with their
>own
>>login, and the %username% environment variable to
>reflect
>>their username. In 98 it works just fine.
>>
>>Regardless who logs into the XP machine, I need the
>screen
>>to come up the same, with the same applications, mapped
>>drives, etc.
>>
>>Anyone been through this before and willing to give me
>>some guidance??
>>
>>Thanks.
>>.
>>
>.
>
on 98SE.
What needs to be done on Win98 workstations to use roaming
profiles effectively???
>-----Original Message-----
>Have you tried roamin user profiles? Std. solution for
>users who share PC's, which sounds like everyone on your
>network! But you should only need to have one profile
>per user, and store the profile on the network in a
>dedicated "profiles" shared profile, or in the users
>homefolder. So you might have to consider some space
>issues on your HD, but otherwise that should be the
>answer for you.
>
>Hope it helps.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I have 2 situations where I have NT servers (set up as
>>domain servers) serving a mixed network of Win98SE and
>XP
>>Pro workstations.
>>The Win98 side is solid, and working well. Users log in,
>>and according to their username have their personal file
>>directory on the server mapped to them (using
>putinenv.exe
>>and winset.exe in the login.bat).
>>
>>The XP users work fine too, with one serious caveat.
>>My users do not always use the same computer - and we
>>have over 20 users in the one setup, with about 10
>>compters. That is potentially over 200 profiles when we
>>get everything upgraded to XP.
>>
>>I NEED to be able to have any user log on to any XP
>>workstation without adding the user and profiles to the
>>workstation. Yet I need each user to log in with their
>own
>>login, and the %username% environment variable to
>reflect
>>their username. In 98 it works just fine.
>>
>>Regardless who logs into the XP machine, I need the
>screen
>>to come up the same, with the same applications, mapped
>>drives, etc.
>>
>>Anyone been through this before and willing to give me
>>some guidance??
>>
>>Thanks.
>>.
>>
>.
>