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User profiles with Windows 2000 Active Directory

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LuckyTaxi

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How do you go about having a user's profile not saved on the local computer. To my surprise it seems that everytime a student logs into any computer on campus, a folder with their username is created on under c:\documents and settings

Does it have to do with roaming profiles?
 
Yes. A "roaming profile" keeps the \USERID\.... out of the local \Documents and Settings\ folder
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No, that is not true. A copy of the roaming profile is kept in the Documents and Settings folder on the local machine. All changes to the profile are saved there, and when the user logs out, the profile is copied back to the server, overwriting the old copy.

So if a user with a roaming profile logs onto 10 machines, there will be a folder in Documents and Settings with his username on each machine.

Edit: In other words, there is no way for you to prevent a profile from a user from showing up on a machine. If the user has a valid account, and permission to log onto that machine, it doesn't matter what kind of profile they have, it will still leave a copy behind.
 
there is no way for you to prevent a profile from a user from showing up on a machine. If the user has a valid account, and permission to log onto that machine, it doesn't matter what kind of profile they have, it will still leave a copy behind.
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That's easily changed in group policy. Just create a console for the users that are roaming.
You can have the profile delete after it has saved itself to the server and the person logs off.
It will ONLY save a profile to a local machine if the local machine looses connection to the server. And even then you can set it to delete that profile too.

If you couldn't do that, your hd space would fill up real quick if you had a lot of different users.


 

DeleteRoamingCache

Create a DWORD value called DeleteRoamingCache with the 0 value in the directory below.

Win2k - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
NT4 - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Good luck!

 
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