Re: 3 New Servers - how many DC's?

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Hank Arnold <rasilon@xxxxxxx> typed:

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> Roaming profiles don't require AD.

Well, you can use them on an NT domain, but you can't use them in a
workgroup, not in any way I can fathom. There's no central account database
or "brain" to handle centralized logins, and they're all local
logins....nothin' to roam, right?

> *Profiles* only make sense if AD is
> intalled.

Perhaps you're inverting "profiles" and "roaming profiles" ?

> AD is only on a DC. When you make a server a DC, it
> automatically has AD. All you are really doing with roaming profiles
> is putting them on a different server so that a user gets the same
> profile regardless of where they log on.
>

Running away now! :)




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