Re: Roaming Profiles in a Workgroup
From: Ian Beswick (scribe@argonet.co.uk)
Date: 08/04/02
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From: "Ian Beswick" <scribe@argonet.co.uk> Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 11:34:06 -0700
To clarify my problem, the elements of the roaming profile
which are working fine are things such as the contents of
My Documents and user-defined desktop icons (though
positions are wrong). What isn't working are Themes, built-
in desktop Icons (ie. IE, My Documents, My Computer etc.).
Whilst logged-in with such a profile, I'm unable to change
any settings in Control Panel or elsewhere; many icons on
the XP-Style Start Menu are missing (classic Start Menu is
fine). It almost feels like XP thinks it is accessing a
Mandatory Profile rather than a regular roaming one.
If I make any of my users members of the Administrators
group on all machines, then everything works correctly;
it's not just the Administrator user that works as I'd
expect. If I wipe the files in the shared folder, and then
allow one machine to write it's settings back there, then
that one machine can generally access the profile
correctly (even if it is not the one hosting the share).
I've been working away at trying to get this working for
several days now (I'm an OEM, this system is due for
installation with the customer ASAP!), and am getting
somewhat frustrated. My gut reaction is that it's
something relatively simple that's stopping it (most
likely the security settings on some system files) but so
far I haven't found the right combination of settings for
it to work flawlessly.
It may be outside what was ever expected, but it sure
seems something that would be very useful on a small
home/office network (without a domain controller) where
any user may want to use any available machine and have
their settings/desktop/documents/email etc. available at
any of the machines. No doubt the 'official' path is to
install a Small Business Server machine, but for only 3
desktop machines that would be outside the budget of this
particular small business.
>-----Original Message-----
>"Ian Beswick" <scribe@argonet.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:09bc01c23bc0$e841c820$3bef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA10...
>> I have a workgroup of 3 XP-Pro machines, which can each
be
>> used by any one of 8 people. My thought was to set up a
>> network share on the main machine (which will also act
as
>> the ICS host) to hold roaming profiles for all users,
and
>> give rights to all authenticated users. If I give all
>> users administrative rights then all is fine, but
>> otherwise the profiles don't work correctly from the
other
>> machines.
>>
>> Is it supposed to be possible to host roaming profiles
on
>> a workgroup network share (there is no domain
controller)
>> and I've just got access-rights problems... or am I
>> wasting my time trying to make this configuration work?
If
>> it should work, any pointers would be gratefully
received.
>
>Use of roaming profiles outside of a domain environment is
>rather novel, raising my interest that you report some
sort of
>limited success (when account is admin). I will be
interested
>to see what others have to say on getting this going, but
wanted
>to add for you that you are following a path AFAIK
outside of
>the product design , and what may be working with
Administrator
>could be due to it being an account recognized on all
systems,
>whereas custom defined accounts are not.
>
>--
>Roger Abell
>MS MVP (Windows Platform), MCSE, MCDBA
>Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>
>
>.
>
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