Re: Single Desktop?

ok thanks for your help guys. I see that this is not the way things are
intended to work. I am only just learning how this all works since until
recently we have had Win 98 workstations, and I am only a self-taught
"network administrator". I thought maybe there was a toggle somewhere for XP
that switched multi-desktops on and off or something.

so some questions i would have are:
- for each workstation I setup, should I have to anticipate every person
that might login to it?
- am I able to setup email access for people through microsoft outlook
without having to go to the particular workstation, and login as them, and
set it up? I would think that there should be a way of doing this without
having to know everyones password.
- is desktop folder redirection a common way of controlling what users have
access to on the desktop? how would the root folder shortcuts 'point' to
local applications if they are on the server?

many thanks

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

Dave Cousineau ( Sahuagin )
<DaveCousineauSahuagin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

This isn't how AD & multiuser operating systems work. You'd have to create a
single mandatory profile which was preconfigured to contain mail profiles
for *all* possible users.

What's the goal? I frankly can't see the point of this. You can set up
standard desktops via group policy, you can do all sorts of things
centrally.



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