Re: Windows Administration

From: Howard Bakken (HowardBakken_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/21/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:55:10 -0800

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Howard Bakken wrote:
> > I have several people in my company that utilize their laptops both
> > at work and at home. They would like to have all of their programs,
> > settings, et al to be the same on both their system login and their
> > network login. Currently theier computers have seperate usernames and
> > settings for each type of login.
> >
> > How can I help them setup thier computers with identical settings for
> > both logins?
>
> Well, you could do this or just let them logon to the domain - cached
> credentials allow this.
>
> Notice if they logon to the system with a network connection, but not one
> that can reach the Domain - it will increase the time to logon. The work
> around is to not hook into a network until they logon.
>
> To make the profiles the same, have them logon locally as well as in the
> domain - choose the one they like the most (this is all assuming you do not
> use roaming profiles) and as another administrative user, change the
> registry setting pointing to one or the other profiles...
>
> Start -> RUN -> regedit
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
>
> Look for the SID (the really nasty looking number starting with S-1-5
> usually) folder that when you select it on the left and look on the right in
> the value for "ProfileImagePath" has the value for the user you want to
> point to the other profile. Change that to be the path of the other user
> you want it to be.. and then close the regedit and reboot. Make sure that
> the users have full File and Directory permissions to boh of those
> directories.
>
> --
> <- Shenan ->
> --
> The information is provided "as is", it is suggested you research for
> yourself before you take any advice - you are the one ultimately
> responsible for your actions/problems/solutions. Know what you are
> getting into before you jump in with both feet.
>
>
> Thanks for the reply. I will try it on my own before trying others.

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