Roaming profiles on Windows 98

A roaming profile just goes with the user account no matter what system they log in and no matter what OS but you cannot switch back and forth between OS's since the config files are different. So a profile in W98 works on all W9X systems but wont work on NT or W2k. When you specify a home directory in the profile w98 will use that as the first folder to save files to So if the My Dos folder is on the server no problem it should work just fine and since all the files are on the server they are accessible from every system you log in to the network.

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You can access a Windows 98 machine to install the Windows 98 policy editor. Save the file as config.pol under SYSVOL where the logon scripts are defined. Then point the users profile to config.pol. Within the policy you can define many settings and restrict many things. You can add users and computers and make the settings specific to Windows 98 computers and how each user can access items. In the computers profile, just enable profiles so each computer can use a roaming profile. The only drawback is you can't specify My Documents folder redirection, but you can specify the start menu settings. The group policies that you create will only affect users logging into Win2k machines. If your users are going to be logging into both Win98 and Win2k, then you need to create the policy for the user with Win98 and the group policy for Win2k logons.

Email me if you need additional help in the settings for win98 policies. We have done the exact same thing for our Manufacturing plantusers, that way they can take their profile with them, and we can keep track of website cache.

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