Re: Roaming login on XP professional

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From: GTS (x)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:23:59 -0500

You would have to be a domain member to use a roaming profile. You cannot
join both of these machines to the same domain login. What VPN are you
talking about? A connection from home to your school machine? If so, using
a remote control program like vnc might be an option to remotely use your
school PC. I'd be surprised if your school is configured to allow this
though. 

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"Pingle" <philip@NOSPAM.gn.apc.org> wrote in message 
news:1107009859.49708.0@doris.uk.clara.net...
>I have a computer at home running XP professional, and at college I have a 
>roaming account on a Windows 2000 PC.
>
> I would LOVE to be able to login at home using my college roaming account. 
> However, I can't figure out how to. All the documentation says it's easy, 
> just set a user profile to be roaming by selecting "Roaming profile" from 
> Control panel -> system -> advanced -> Settings under "user profiles" -> 
> change type.
>
> BUT "Roaming profile" is grayed out and I can't select it.
>
> I KNOW that this is because the existing user profiles at local profiles. 
> My question is, HOW do I set up a ROAMING profile?
>
> Maybe I need to be part of a domain not a workgroup? If so, think I need 
> to connect my VPN to be allowed the domain server at college. BUT, I can't 
> start my VPN until I have logged on!! So a second question, is how can I 
> do this?
>
> -- 
> Philip
>

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