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by rhiegen

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Dear Friends,

I have 100 Windows 2000 professional stations and I need to configure them so that all the 200 users who use them see the same configurations of desktop, printers and so on. However I don?t have resource kit and even SMS installed. And my server is Windows NT 4.5, there's no Active Directory installed and configured. How could I configure those 100 stations at once with these same features?

Thank you

Paulo

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Create a mandatory profile, and copy it to all 100 users.
See How to Create Mandatory Profiles with Windows NT 4.0 (Q168476)

by shanghai sam

I could be wrong on this, but I don't think things like mmc config's are stored in profiles.
You might be better off doing a ghost, as in post #3

by tomtechjo

Use an administrative level account to create the perfect image including desktop and printer settings, then copy this profile to default user and change to permit 'everyone' to use.

by pan 13 x

build one computer the way you want it to be and use a utiliity called (norton ghost)
this will image the harddrive and configure all systems the same. it is a great tool and easy to use!

by rhiegen

Dear Colleague,

Below is the list of what I've done and its effects:

I created in my Server running Backoffice Server 4.5 one sharing and a folder inside of it (\\myserver\profiles\mandatory), with permission CHANGE to my users and put this folder in the profiles path of my user in NT user manager for domains.
I created one userteste and put it into my users group.
I went to my computer running Win 2k pro, logged using userteste and configured my desktop and printers and so on, and logged off.
I logged on in this computer as administrator and right-clicked my computer icon and chose profiles tab. Selected userteste profile and copy to \\myserver\profiles\mandatory folder.
Then I rename ntuser.dat in my sharing above as ntuser.man and so ....\mandatory.man.
When I logged in this computter Win2k pro using userteste the profile is ok.
Then I went to mmc in my win2k pro and configured some itens. Again I copied the profile to my sharing. However the configurations from mmc work only in this computer, when I log to another also running Win2k pro they don?t work.
Is there any way to make them persitent in the other stations running Win2k pro?

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