Re: Uinderstanding Profile tab paths

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From: Jaime Stuardo (jstuardo_at_manquehue.net)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:57:52 -0300

May this affect the home directory for FTP connections from a user?

"Tomasz Onyszko [MVP]" <T.Onyszko_nospam_@w2k.pl> wrote in message
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> Jaime Stuardo wrote:
>> Hi all...
>>
>> Using AD, when I view the properties of a user and then I go to Profile
>> tab I see 2 paths to configure: Local Path and Profile Path. What's the
>> difference between both?
>
> Hmm, I think You are talking about two different things:
> 1/ User profile: profile path
> 2/ Home folder: Local path
>
> First (1) is a path to the place where a user profile will be stored
> Second (2) is a path to the place on the server where users should place
> files and data, Local Path let's You specify the path for a home folder on
> the local machine to which users's log on (for example e:\userA) - If user
> will log on to other machine where this folder does not exist will not
> gain the access to this folder. Better idea is to specify path to the
> server in the connect to option on the same tab
>
> I hope this resolves Your doubts
>
>
> --
> Tomasz Onyszko [MVP]
> T.Onyszko@w2k.pl
> http://www.w2k.pl

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