Re: Single Desktop?

Dave Cousineau ( Sahuagin ) wrote:
Hi I have a Windows 2000 Server domain with Windows XP Professional
SP2 computers (and others) accessing it. Is there a way to disable
the multi-desktop feature of Windows XP? I would like if no matter
which credentials were used to login to the domain, the user was
always brought to the same desktop. Especially since it seems I
have to setup email accounts for every different possible login. I
just want one set of email accounts setup that any login can
access, as long as they have the file permission for the mailbox
file. Thanks.

Note that my email is OLD: new address: nerevar at shaw dot ca

Shenan Stanley wrote:
So - what you want is a mandatory profile and no one will have a
unique email address?

Dave Cousineau ( Sahuagin ) wrote:
no. I would like the desktop/start menu etc.., and the setup
profiles of MS Outlook to not depend on the login.

the way it is now, if I setup 5 email accounts, they only exist
under the login that I happened to set them up on.

I would like to prevent the state of the computer from relying on
the domain login. Instead, the login should only affect server
resource access. (files etc..)

Still not sure what you are going for. Explain to me your situation.

In other words - how many users, how many computers and how do the users
utilize the resources they have? (Does each user use a single computer all
the time, does more than one person use the same computer, does each person
use a different computer (or have a high percentage chance of doing so) each
time they use a computer, etc...)

Then maybe with some combination of the All Users profile, the Default User
profile and possibly throwing in Roaming User Profiles and folder
redirection - someone can suggest something.

What I am getting right now is that you have a computer with a single logon
that many individuals know and use and then they all have their own
individual email accounts they also use on that single logon. Now if it is
a single computer with several computers - that is easily fixed through
default user profiles and Office PRF files and the likes.

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