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by info

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Hi there,

I'm looking for a good solution for a school with 900 students and 300 PC's.
It is one Windows 2008 Domain Controller with Windows XP Prof and vista clients.

I want every user to get the profile from the local pc. But Sometimes a user sits on another pc in the same classroom and of course they are not always in the same classroom.

I tried to point the roaming profile to \\server\share\%computername% and that works fine for the first user that logs on, but the second, third,... Seem to have problems...
Only when you upgrade them to domainadministrator, then everything works fine but we do not want that!

How would you do it?

THX

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by thumbsup2

What you want to do is create and store 900 different user profiles on each of 300 PC's? That's what 'local' means. Doesn't this defeat the purpose of using a server? Not to mention the fact that I don't think it's even possible.

by sue t

on the computer and then set that account up the way I want it to be (start Menu, desktop, printers, etc) and I then make that the default profile on the computer. the kids still log onto the domain but when they log on they are getting the default profile I setup on that computer. That way I know that the programs we want are on the start menu and the shortcuts we want are on the desktop. I also setup the default Quick Launch bar also. They can add things to the start menu, desktop, etc. but they can't delete anything I put there. They are limited users on the computer.

by ic-it

Search the profile that will be copied for all desktop.ini files and delete them. This prevents the default profile from naming the My Documents etc with the copied profile name.

by sue t

I did not know that. good to know.

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