Re: Different roaming profile path for different computers

Completely agree with you. But it is possible to imagine the situation in
which it would be useful. 20 computers, 10 of them are quite "slow"
workstations with limited set of applications (office, internet, email) -
usual office machines. 10 others are closer to high-end for experimental
setups with additional software for video processing, data analysis and some
mathematical packages which can't be installed on workstations. All machines
are 2-3 rooms near each other, same people working on them. Local user
accounte doesn't help in this case for obvious reason (it is not possible for
user to make 10 times the same thing with his settings each time logging on
another computer). Different users for each person is also not so good,
because maintaining consistency with security setups and ACL would be harder,
than in the case of 1 user per people.

As I understand now this problem has no short-cut solution. Or, may be
really this is not so much problrm at all :) So, we'll try to use same
profile on all machines. I hope users will be able to live observing lnk
pointing to non-existent applications.

Thank you for your help!

"Jorge Silva" wrote:

Hi
The Gold of roaming profiles is to allow the user to carry that profile with
him in all machines that the user logs on.
If you have different needs you migh want to create local users or configure
these users in ad to not have roaming profiles, in this way the users will
have their own profile in that machine. The other way is to setup a
additional user.

The properties of a user only have place for 1 roaming profile.


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I hope that the information above helps you

Good Luck
Jorge Silva
MCSA
Systems Administrator

"Baturin" <Baturin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:86D48C29-49A8-4CED-89AC-CFB442E4CB6F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi!

The problem is to create, say two groups of computers (by mean of AD
Organization Units) and set for them different shares to store roaming
user
profiles. I can setup roaming profiles by usual way (create share, set
permissions and write profiles path seting in user properties).
By I stuck with the following: how to make two different shares which will
keep roaming profiles for different computers in domain? We have computers
for different roles and different software installed on them. So, it would
be
ideal to setup different user profiles for them (all users are same for
both
types of computers).
I have looked 10 times through group policy object for test OU I created
(with one computer inside it), but haven't figured out anything that can
help
to solve the problem.
I am not a mature AD administrator and might be I overlooked something. I
have created such thing with Samba NT domain under FreeBSD easily (share
path
can include remote machine name %m + using symbolic links).

Does anyone setup similar configuration or can help me with it?
A lot of thanks in advance!



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