Dear Sages,
Anyone following my fumbling travails must be relieved to see I’m at last applying my ignorance to network problems rather than stand alone machine problems. This is progress, I guess. Anyway…
I’ve set up my Win2003 server in my school and I’m joining my various laptops to its domain, but I’ve hit a little problem. The teachers here have spent years using their laptops without a server and taking the machines home to do work in the evenings. Result: their local machine accounts are full of files to which they’d like access. Is it possible to set up a domain workstation so that a particular network user has access to the local files of a particular local user? I’m trying to give the teachers access to their local files and their new network folders on the same log in. So far it’s not working. I tried the following hacks:
1) Naming the local and network accounts identically: no dice. The domain name is appended to the network user and access to the local files is denied.
2) Moving local files to the local shared documents folder: no dice. The machine will allow the files in this folder to be viewed by the network user but will not allow them to be copied to the network folders or even opened in edit mode.
Have I missed something simple? Is the only solution really to transfer local files to a flash drive and then log in again and pass the files from the flash drive to their network folder?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Happy New Year all,
Lev in Brooklyn