Win2k Profile?
04 February 2002, 01:51 PM
#1
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I have a win2000 laptop that many users have to log on to. is there anyway I can turn off the profile settings (like in win98) so that the users permissions to the servers are still active, but each user wont have to be set up for Ie Home page etc.. every time there is a new user. If this makes sense 
Andy
Andy
04 February 2002, 03:03 PM
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Andy,
AFAIK there is no way to prevent Win2K from using individual user profiles. Like NT4 before it, Win2K creates a new profile for every user based on the Default User profile. The only way around this would be to create the one user account for everyone to share and create individual Mail profiles to seperate users e-mail settings.
There's various products out there to simply managing these profiles, but all that I've seen rely on the users logging into a network of some sort, so not very practical when out of the office.
Stefan
AFAIK there is no way to prevent Win2K from using individual user profiles. Like NT4 before it, Win2K creates a new profile for every user based on the Default User profile. The only way around this would be to create the one user account for everyone to share and create individual Mail profiles to seperate users e-mail settings.
There's various products out there to simply managing these profiles, but all that I've seen rely on the users logging into a network of some sort, so not very practical when out of the office.
Stefan
05 February 2002, 09:14 AM
#5
One way to do it would be to create a new local user on your laptop.
Log on as the new user.
Make all the changes to IE, Desktop, etc.
Log out.
Copy the profile of the user you logged in as to default user.
Remove all local profiles except yours and the user you created.
Whenever anyone logs into your laptop they will get the settings you defined above. (hopefully)
Regards
Paul
[Edited by paulmon - 2/5/2002 9:21:38 AM]
[Edited by paulmon - 2/5/2002 10:02:08 AM]
Log on as the new user.
Make all the changes to IE, Desktop, etc.
Log out.
Copy the profile of the user you logged in as to default user.
Remove all local profiles except yours and the user you created.
Whenever anyone logs into your laptop they will get the settings you defined above. (hopefully)
Regards
Paul
[Edited by paulmon - 2/5/2002 9:21:38 AM]
[Edited by paulmon - 2/5/2002 10:02:08 AM]
05 February 2002, 11:11 AM
#6
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You can copy a lot of stuff to the Default User profile, but I've found Mail/Internet Explorer settings to be a right pain in the @rse.
When I worked with Thin-Client stuff, we were always trying this so that adding new users would be as painfree as possible. A single WTS/Citrix server is in effect a large single workstation where all users login to the same box.
I found that you could set all the IE/Mail settings, but these would get overwritten when you logged in as a new user. I think the operating system re-creates/clears the registry keys during the login process.
It's certainly worth a try - just backup the DU profile first.
Stefan
When I worked with Thin-Client stuff, we were always trying this so that adding new users would be as painfree as possible. A single WTS/Citrix server is in effect a large single workstation where all users login to the same box.
I found that you could set all the IE/Mail settings, but these would get overwritten when you logged in as a new user. I think the operating system re-creates/clears the registry keys during the login process.
It's certainly worth a try - just backup the DU profile first.
Stefan
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