Re: New local user with domain user's home

From: The Atomic Ass (the_atomic_ass@SPAM.KILLER.runbox.com)
Date: 08/15/02 

From: The Atomic Ass <the_atomic_ass@SPAM.KILLER.runbox.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:07:54 GMT

J. elegantly belched in news:205a01c24321$703aaaf0$3aef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA09:

> I have been logging into my XP Pro box by signing into my
> school's domain using my network username and password.
> The problem I'm finding now is that I am home and there
> is no school network to authenticate me, so I cannot
> logon using my user.
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I figured the only
> way around this was to set up a local user and set this
> user to use the same home directory (in C:\Documents and
> Settings) as the directory that was set up for me when I
> log onto the domain. I am having trouble finding how to
> do this though.
>
> I found the places to set the home directory and profile
> for a local user but I am unsure what this does. I tried
> setting them both to C:\Documents and
> Settings\userName.domainName (the path where all of my
> settings, files, "My Documents", etc. are). When I tried
> to log on with the local user I got an error about part
> of the profile being encrypted and the key being
> encrypted as well. So I deleted the path from the
> profile path setting and logged on and didn't see any of
> the settings that I had before.
>
> Also, both times it created a folder in C:\Documents and
> Settings for my new local user. Is it possible to just
> use the folder I had set up for my non-local user so I
> have all of my preferences and any changes I make will be
> saved when I go back to school?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> J.
> mmcconn1@swarthmore.edu
>

No. Domain accounts will not work without a domain controller to
authenticate.

Something you can try:

If you can, login as the local administrator on your computer, and make a new
LOCAL account. (Since you won't have a domain available, that should be your
only choice).

Alter the NTFS permissions if nessecary, (assuming your using NTFS), to make
your Domain account's document folder available to the local account, then
just make a shortcut on the desktop of the local account. You won't have
some settings readily available, (ie, you'll have to re-create some), but
this is probably the closest your going to get to your domain account,
without the DC there to authenticate. 

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