On Thu, March 12, 2009 4:25 pm, Paul McNett wrote: > Roaming profiles have worked well for me, but your use case makes me say > "proceed > with caution". > > In order for roaming profiles to work sanely, your operators *must* allow > time after logging off one system before logging on another. At least > until the login prompt appears again. This is because Windows saves the > profile to the server when the user logs off, and loads it when the user > logs on. If system A is still saving the profile when system B wants to > load it, well... Windows isn't so great with atomic operations. > > If the profile is huge (lots of pictures in My Pictures, for example) the > user will wait and wait the first time logging in to a different machine, > as all the pictures get copied over. > > The other thing to be aware of is that the user's shortcuts may or may > not be valid on all systems. Say the first system's program files are in > c:\Program Files but the > other system has it in e:\Program Files... or perhaps the program the > shortcut refers to isn't installed on system 2. > > But, I've been using roaming profiles since NT4 SP3 and I have to say > they've mostly worked very sanely. Be aware though that I use Samba on > Linux for the server, not > Windows Server. I found Samba/Linux to be way more reliable than Windows > Server > (although, to be fair, the last Windows Server I used was Win2k), so YMMV.
Thanks for that info, Paul. Sounds like this is handled by the operating system/network server. Wonder why they're asking me (a developer) to be involved in this? I initially thought they wanted me to write some app but after reading the docs on this, I'm not sure about that. I guess if I do have to write an app, the important thing will be for me to write the data to the user's My Documents folder so that it travels with them. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
