Hi All,
I’m trying to work out the best way for our company’s laptop users (XP on Win2k3 network) to logon to their laptops off-network and still be able to view their normal cached domain profile.
I’ve tried this in two ways already. Neither of them are particularly satisfactory:
1. Create a local user on the laptop, and redirect the local account’s profile to the cached domain account’s profile, using the ProfileImagePath setting in registry.
Benefit: The user can logon locally as many times as they like
Problem: Because two accounts are pointing at the one profile, it often corrupts. this is a huge PITA
2. Don’t create the local user. But change the “number of previous logons to cache” in Computer Management to the max value of 50.
Benefits: No corrupted profiles. No need to create a local account.
Problem: If out of office for more than a week, the user will surely run out of local logons (50).
I’m sure there’s a really simple answer, but im having trouble finding it.
Cheers,
Calvin