Single login requirement for roaming profiles in Windows 2003?

Hi,

Is it possible to enforce a single login instance for users in my
domain? I am planning to use roaming profiles and DFS to provide some
fault tolerance for user's home directories and profiles. After reading
about DFS, it became apparent that DFS can cause data loss if a user is
logged in on two different machines because DFS would not be able to
synchronize the profiles in real time. However, I like the idea of
having roaming profiles and redirected directories replicated to a
secondary machine so that my users can keep working even if I have to
reboot the primary file server.

That brings up a second similar question: Without using DFS, can
roaming profiles and redirected directories become corrupted if a user
logs in to two different machines in the domain?

Thanks,

Ed

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Relevant Pages

  • RE: Roaming Profiles over DFS
    ... the slow link is measured against the domain controller ... Do not store roaming profiles on a domain-based DFS share. ... Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Question if you can synch profiles
    ... You can sync anything, including roaming profiles. ... Replication in the same forest, or you could just use a scheduled robocopy ... credentials (based on the Slow Network Detection). ... If you set up another DC at Branch 2 in teh same domain, you could use DFS ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.group_policy)
  • Roaming Profiles on DFS Share - Not loading
    ... We have re-configured our users roaming profiles to look at a DFS share and ... they do not appear to be loading, the temporary profile is used. ... to access the DFS Share once logged in there is no problems. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: File Cluster
    ... We have about 200 users out there with roaming profiles. ... in the Microsoft Knowledge Base -256926, it seems like the "DFS" ... >> over to the new file cluster servers. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering)
  • Re: Roaming Profiles in a Workgroup
    ... in desktop Icons. ... any settings in Control Panel or elsewhere; ... group on all machines, then everything works correctly; ... >> Is it supposed to be possible to host roaming profiles ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin)