Re: Roaming profiles in Windows XP

From: Kent W. England [MVP] (kwe@mvps.org)
Date: 05/14/02 

From: "Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 07:02:23 -0700

You don't get roaming profiles without a Microsoft server. All you get
are shared folders on a network. Outlook Express doesn't work properly
with message store across a network.

If what you want is the ability to logon to any machine and see your
files, the best you can do AFAIK is to put your My Documents on a share
and access that from any machine where you have an account setup. 

--
Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
(Please respond only in the newsgroup)
Ragnar <leschrh@yahoo.de> posted the following:
> Could somebody point to a how-to guide for setting up
> roaming profiles on a workgroup of Windows XP
> Professional workstations (no server).
>
> I did create the same user id and password on both
> clients and the 'server', copied on the server the local
> profile to a shared directory
> '\\Server\SharedFolder\User', made it available for
> everyone, pointed the profile path on the clients machine
> to that directory in 'Computer Management/Local Users and
> Groups/Users/User' and declared the profile in
> 'Control Panel\System\Advanced\User Profiles\Settings'
> as 'roaming'.
>
> However, only on the server it also states there, that it
> is roaming (under Status) whereever it says 'Local' on
> the other computers. So, how I can achieve the Status
> being 'Roaming' too on the client computers?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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