Re: Roaming Profiles

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
In news:1160056588.890699.21760@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Custom GT <webdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
yea that helps

i should have chose my words more carefully, and re-read what i wrote

i mean \\myserver\profiles\username\desktop
coorect (i call computers by thier username, usersnames are thier
computer names here T01, T02..etc)

Oh, why do you do that? Why not give people their own identity, and let them
log in wherever they need to?

Its kind of wierd.
Thier own identiy is thier computer terminal.
Say lindsey sits at computer T05. She logs on to the domain with user
T05 and her password.
Thier is no need for them to switch to different computers.
But if she did, she can go to another computer and put in T05 and her
password and it will pull up her profile.

One thing this is good for is turnover, if she left I wouldn't have to
change anything, the new person would just take over T05.
And i do ip for that computer 10.0.1.05
so i can walk up to a computer, know the terminal, the user and login,
the IP address.

im sure thier are some downsides to this maybe....not sure what



Haha, I didnt mean i added a new desktop background, that is what it
looked like i said. I meant i just created a new one. Better yet I
should have said I created a new .MP3 file on the desktop.

OK.

so what your saying it is always writing to the client computer until
it logs off to sync to the server.

Yes.

So basicly I could reboot the
server and no one would even notice besides thier antiviurs task icon
would go red and they couldnt recieve/send email in outlook (although
its set to cached mode so they could still use it)....

Yes. Although if you're using folder redirection, not really. :)

.i always make
people log off when i have to restart it, maybe i dont have to worry
about that?

Yep.

thanks

matt


Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
In news:1159975091.438941.194050@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Custom GT <webdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
were already setup on roaming profiles, the guy who did our sbs set
it up.
he quit so now im trying to figure it all out.

Ok I did this.
I opened up //myserver/profiles/mycomputer/desktop

Eh? I'm not sure what youmean.

It wouldn't be your computer name. \\server\profileshare\username\
....

i then added a new bitmap image on my physical desktop on my PC. I
then looked in //myserver/profiles/mycomputer/desktop and refreshed
it, it did not add it thier.

Did you log out after you changed your wallpaper? That's the only
way a roaming profile gets updated on the server.

this would mean were using roaming profiles with offline (local)
files right?

No, it doesn't necessarily mean that at all.

So what your saying, Folder Redirection is when your profile
(desktop, mydocuments, etc) are stored on the server only, none on
the personal computers. So if the server is down you cant use your
computer?

Pretty much, but a) that shouldn't happen and b) if there's a
situation so serious that the server is down, I don't want people
accessing locally cached files that they might not be able to sync
back to the server.

thanks for all the help, sorry i am so dense lol.

No prob, hope this makes it clearerl

-Matt

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
In news:1159970408.191778.112790@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Custom GT <webdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
ok...could u explain?

say i open off the desktop of a roaming file, matt.xls

i modify it and save it

then my computer crashes.

Did this get copied to my /profile/matt on the server? or maybe it
copies to my HD and syncs with the /profile/matt when i logon and
off?

Forget the roaming profile issue for a second...

If you are using folder redirection, *just* folder redirection,
you're accessing the file from the server. So, whatever you saved,
you saved. Whatever you didn't save, you didn't. There's only that
one file.

If you're using offline files, you're accessing a local copy of the
file. Which may or may not get saved/synced to the server when/if
you crash.

OK - and if you were using (properly configured!) roaming profiles,
and you hadn't done folder redirection for Desktop, there is still
a copy of that file in your profile folder on the server. So, the
saved file on your desktop ought to copy up to the profile folder
on the server, when you next log in.

I do not like offline files. I have found more problems than I can
name with that feature, and I won't use it. Other people love them,
so, your mileage may vary.

I suggest you enable folder redirection for My Documents (and
perhaps Desktop, but frankly, I usually prefer to tell users,
"don't save crap on the desktop"). I also suggest you disable
offline files, but that's your choice. When you have everything
working, then you can look into roaming profiles if you wish to
use them.




thanks

matt

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
In news:1159911816.863007.58460@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Custom GT <webdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
Hello

I was just curious on how roaming profiles worked. We have them
set up with sbs 2003.


If my desktop pc is logged into the domain, and it gets
unplugged, is my data (my user data) kept in sync with the
server or does it only write to it when you do a log off or a
restart/shutdown?


I have always wondered how this work....


thanks


Matt


Reply

You're confusing "offline files" (which I think are icky) with
"roaming profiles" (which I personally like, when they're
configured properly).

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