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by ldemaison

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My server crashed and I have had to replace one of the hard drives and rebuild. Because I have a bdc I did not lose my users however I have lost their roaming profile. Can someone help me with the steps to recreating this profile. Since it is in a high school lab the students right now can log on and they then can use the profile on the local cpu but that means the system is accessible to the students. With the profile I had it all locked down so they were only able to access their home directory and specific programs. Any iseas woud be great.

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by coopachi

Ok, straight from the MOC on Server in the Enterprise.

1. Create a template user profile w/ the appropriate configuration. You do this by creating a user acct. and then configuring desktop settings.
2. Create and share a folder named Profiles. This will allow the user access from a remote computer.
3. copy the template UP to a network server and specify the users who are permitted to use the profile.
4. Specify the path to the profile for the user acct. in the User Environment Profile dialog box.

here is an aside. If you have many users that require roaming profiles, you can specify the path to the profile for multiple user accts. at one time by doing the following.

1. In User manager select multiple accts.
2. on the User menuclick Properties
3. In the User Properties dialog box, click Profile

to specify the path to the roaming profile it is
\\computer_name\profiles\%username%

where computer_name = the Server
profiles = the created share

you can share the Profiles sub. dir. under Winnt

hope this helps
later

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