Re: Roaming Profile Creations

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The only way you're going to prevent data being overwritten by other users is to give each user their own account.
You then have two options:

1) Roaming profiles - Under the profile tab of the user account, just type in a path to the users profile located on a network share.
eg - \\<server>\profiles\username
You will need to set up a share on the server with the name profiles. The actual roaming profile directories will be created automatically. The problem with roaming profiles though is that if the user puts large files in one of their profile directories (eg My Documents), then when moving from computer to computer, the login process can take a very long time.

The better method is:
2) Home directories.
Create a share on the server called Users
On the profile tab, select Connect, and then a drive letter (eg H:) and then type the home folder path as \\<server>\users\username.
When the user logs in, it will automatically map the drive letter to their personal home directory where they can then store files. You will have to notify users that unless they store files in this mapped drive, there is a possibility they will be lost.

You could also use both options so that settings and files are available no matter where they log in. Just ensure you've got the disk space in your servers to allow for the extra storage.

Hope that helps.

Chad Hooper
MCSE (NT,2000,2003)

"Ray" <ray_park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:hm5g34dok5mtnk778tbd28ceo3prg00acq@xxxxxxxxxx
Hello All -
I am a regular Joe user who has been promoted to Network Administrator
through the magic of ignorance. All the same - it's now my
responsibility.

I work in an elementary school. All students use the same login. The
students have at their disposal 3-5 classroom computers, a library
with 12 computers and a computer lab with 20 computers. They move from
computer to computer working on their projects and are constantly
losing their data or having it overwritten by someone else. Individual
logins and roaming profiles sounds like the best method to solve this
problem. The only issue I have is finding out how to get started from
the beginning. Everything I've read is either at a real
administrator's level or starts part of the way through the process.

Can anyone get me going or offer suggestions as to how to solve the
problem without using roaming profiles?

Thanks
Ray

Oh - I should have mentioned...
Running Domain on Server 2003 with XP Workstations
Children do NOT have email accounts on Exchange server - but if this
works well, some teachers have expressed an interest in being able to
roam with the children and they will have Outlook email

Again - Thanks in advance.

.

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