Re: Sharing the same profile among two login configs

From: Lyal Collins (lyalc@ozemail.com.au)
Date: 11/01/02 

From: "Lyal Collins" <lyalc@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 19:19:29 +1100

You may have already tried netswitcher - a useful workaround to this issue

"Pavils Jurjans" <pavils@mailbox.riga.lv> wrote in message
news:uTyOhwXgCHA.2400@tkmsftngp11...
> Well, I thought it would generally improve networking speed in the
corporate
> network, since there are Win98 machines always taking minutes to connect
to
> their shares and printers.
>
> Also, I have some shared folders where I'd like to set up access
permissions
> to certain users of domain, so I need to be connected to that domain to be
> able to do it.
>
> Well, it seems strange there is no shorthand way to do this. In very many
> cases there is really a *single user* who may want to use his PC in
> different networking locations. So why he should have different user
> profiles in each of these? Maybe there are some technology limitations I
> don't see in this moment... but would'nt it be a good feature to
implement?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Pavils Jurjans
>
> "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu> wrote in message
> news:#QKjsuWgCHA.2636@tkmsftngp09...
> > In addition to what Eric has indicated, I will add that I have
> > also found attempts at such a config unsatisfactory, and, that
> > it really is possible to do much with "your" machine not in
> > "their" domain. This has the advantage of keeping your
> > machine as you have it configured rather than as their GPO
> > policies say it should be configured. Usually you can get
> > at most things using the domain credentials that have been
> > provided to you, either directly or via a similarly named
> > local account which you use for RunAs. This keeps your
> > box wholly yours, and you are always operating within
> > the environment of you local machine account.
> >
> > --
> > Roger Abell
> > MS MVP (Security, Windows), MCDBA, MCSE both
> > Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> >
> > "Pavils Jurjans" <pavils@mailbox.riga.lv> wrote in message
> > news:#pMWymNgCHA.1656@tkmsftngp11...
> > > Hallo,
> > >
> > > I am a home developer who time to time visits corporate office. I have
> > > Windows XP Professional 2002 on my PC.
> > >
> > > So, sometimes I log on windows startup to the corporate domain, using
> the
> > > login name assigned to me there, and sometimes (when at home) I would
> log
> > on
> > > to the local machine using my full name for login. Thus, I've got two
> > > different separate profiles, and that's pretty dumb. Is there some way
> how
> > I
> > > could use the same profile from both login configurations? I really
> don't
> > > like that all my stuff is located in two different places, sometimes
> large
> > > duplicate files are there, etc.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > -- Pavils
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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