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by cwtech

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We currently have Roaming profiles set up for all of our users. Is there any way to stop a Roaming profile from being downloaded to a paticular workstation when a user logs on to that paticular workstation if the user is setup to use Roaming profiles.

We do want the profile to be downloaded when they log on to any other PC on our network.

Is there a registry setting I can set on that Paticular PC ?

Running NT4.0 SP5 on Server
Running NT4.0 SP3 or SP5 on Workstation

Thanks

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by ian mclaws

Doesn't sound like you should have roaming profiles at all. A roaming profile is specifically to enable a user to download his personal desktop settings when he logs into a system other than his own, which you state you do not want. You should be using local profiles, which will not follow the users. You may have enabled roaming to support a users work being stored on a server, for backup or fault tolerance, and you can still have this with local profiles by using home folders and educating your users on how to use them. To convert your current roaming profile to a local one, go into the system properties on each client (must be logged on as an administrator or power user) and select the "User Profiles" page. Highlight the user profile youwant to localize, then click "change type", and change to local. You must also remove the profile path from your user accounts in User Manager, or the profile will switch back to roaming the first time the user logs in.

Keep me posted,

Ian

by cwtech

I agree I do state that I want roaming profiles but I don't want roaming profiles downloaded to a Paticular PC but I want the profile downloaded anywhere else when they log on.

I know this is not the norm, but this is to accomadate a special PC for training purposes

Thanks again

by mcarswell

Very good Question.. After a few test i can Tell you with asurance YES.. What i did was the following I made sure policy editor was install on my machine with I told policy editor to open the registry on that machine and whent under local machine and under Windows NT Users Profile You can specify NT to automaticlly detect slow network connections - the set the Slow network Time out Session in milliseconds to 0 -- As wll as choose the Defalut Operations to use local profile. I check every thing on on that tree and it worked. If you need more detail let me know but it may cost you a few more points ;-)

by shoopp

Yes,
we do this all the time for our admins (works for others as well... we just don't tell em)

with the user setup for roaming profiles have them logon to the machine you want "static", then go to control panel - system - user profiles. selectthe user you want a static profile and click on change type- set it to local.
that will prevent that profile from being overwritten by the roaming profile and will not be copied up to the server as a roaming profile.
one word of caution.
you can not swap back from local to roaming without deleting the profile.

hope this was what you were looking for.

paul

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