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Spazo   10-04-2006 at 05:20:21 AM

hello, I recently bought windows advenced server 2000 and I have aquestion.
At my old high school all the computers were mac and they all signed in to the mac server. On your user u could do stuff like change the backround and add stuff to the desktop and then when you signed into a different computer every thing would look the same. As in like your desktop would be the same and whare you put stuff would be in the same place. My question is how do I set up my server to do the same thing? Right now I have a laptop and a desktop with xp pro and my server. all these computers are on like a test network. nothing complicated just every thing pluged into the router (no internet). The server has active dierctory set up and two users on it. The computers are joined on the same domain of the server and do sign in but not like I could at school. If you could point me in the direction fo an artical or axplain it to me that would be fantastic. but please remember that I am very new to windows server.
Thanks,
Spazo

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Riser   10-04-2006 at 09:01:05 PM
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What you're looking for are "Profiles."

If you go under the user account in Active Directory Users and Computers, you'll see where you can point it to a profile.

Create a folder location and point the Profile there:

D:\Profiles\%username%
or
D:\Profiles\xxxusername

When you log in, it won't pull anything. When you log off, it should push everything up to that location.

Now, you can also move into what is called a Mandatory profile in which a user can't change anything. In this, you change a file extention from .. ahh something to .man (mandatory) and they won't be able to edit it.

Support.microsoft.com or technet.microsoft.com are good resources for this.

Any other questions, post back or PM me and I'll see what I can do to help you out.

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Spazo   10-07-2006 at 11:04:09 PM
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Thanks a lot!!!! :D

To day I finaly got the user permisions and everything all setup. it works perfectly! once again thanks

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