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Post #85,484
by pwhysall
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3/4/03 11:59:09 AM
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New Roaming profile?
If so, get it nuked and start over.

Otherwise he should quit, because he's bad juju around computers.

Peter
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Post #85,502
by hnick
3/4/03 12:31:39 PM
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New What is a roaming profile in a wired context?
I know what that is in wireless, but what is that for a wired system?
Is that something he could get at locally, or would IT have to do it?

Thanks,
Hugh
Post #85,508
by tseliot
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3/4/03 12:56:34 PM
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New Profiles been around for a while.
Basically, they took off in the Windows line with NT server. The idea was to take your user specifics, preferences, user registry hive, that sort of thing, and dump them on the server so that you'd have access to your personal set of ugly window colors and ugly, unreadable fonts on titlebars and controls no matter which workstation you happened to be on. They are loaded at logon from the server since, what, Win98? Maybe earlier--can't remember back that far.
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Post #85,509
by scoenye
3/4/03 12:59:47 PM
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New Stashed on a server
A roaming profile in this context is one stored on a server. Each time your user logs in to a PC he has never used before, a copy of the profile is installed on it. In reverse, all changes to the profile are replicated to the server copy so they later reflect on other PCs as soon as the user logs in.

Local profiles are just that: they only exist on one client PC and are not replicated to other PCs even if the same user is able to log on there (so you get the default nearly empty desktop)

A roaming profile is normally defined by IT as you need to be able to set rights on the server and to change the domain account.
Post #85,513
by hnick
3/4/03 1:06:17 PM
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New Got it.
I'll check when I get a chance. I'm pretty sure that IT pushes a certain amount of garbage on us and screws with some permissions. It's worth checking.

Thanks,
Hugh
     Interesting problem; suggestions? - (hnick) - (17) - March 4, 2003, 07:48:58 AM EST
         Can he recreate the problem on another computer? - (ben_tilly) - (16) - March 4, 2003, 08:30:34 AM EST
             Question - (jbrabeck) - (3) - March 4, 2003, 09:02:17 AM EST
                 We are forgetting what DynamicDNS/DHCP have as a... - (folkert) - (2) - March 4, 2003, 12:41:07 PM EST
                     Doubt video but he made a new user entry. - (hnick) - (1) - March 4, 2003, 01:16:59 PM EST
                         Sounds like a Roaming Profile issue. - (folkert) - March 4, 2003, 02:06:11 PM EST
             Yes, he can... - (hnick) - (11) - March 4, 2003, 10:00:24 AM EST
                 his profile sounds cacked(WAG) - (boxley) - (2) - March 4, 2003, 10:10:10 AM EST
                     Hey BOx, stop? Talking like a girl? (And Norm?) Please? -NT - (CRConrad) - (1) - March 4, 2003, 10:21:22 AM EST
                         Now how did I get into this conversation? (new thread) - (orion) - March 4, 2003, 01:58:28 PM EST
                 Research direction... - (tseliot) - March 4, 2003, 10:26:35 AM EST
                 Roaming profile? - (pwhysall) - (4) - March 4, 2003, 11:59:09 AM EST
                     What is a roaming profile in a wired context? - (hnick) - (3) - March 4, 2003, 12:31:39 PM EST
                         Profiles been around for a while. - (tseliot) - March 4, 2003, 12:56:34 PM EST
                         Stashed on a server - (scoenye) - (1) - March 4, 2003, 12:59:47 PM EST
                             Got it. - (hnick) - March 4, 2003, 01:06:17 PM EST
                 If you are really on a hub: sniff the packets - (scoenye) - (1) - March 4, 2003, 01:06:04 PM EST
                     Sniffer is not an option - (hnick) - March 4, 2003, 01:21:59 PM EST

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