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#1 User is offline   hamish 

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Posted 19 July 2005 - 02:25 AM

Hello

I'm currently messing around with W2k server and trying to setup active directory for a few users.

Am I right in thinking that active directory is what one uses to allow users to store their applications settings on a central computer, so that no matter which PC they log in with, their settings in Word, Excel, etc will always remain the same?

If so, is this fairly straight forward to setup? Otherwise, please correct me :)

When a person logs into the active directory from teh client, I would like them to receive a small quota on the server, so that they can save documents there, and regardless of which PC they use, this share will always be mounted on their client machine.

Again, how simple is this?

Last question, where does user information get stored on the server? My Active Directory directory is f:\sysvol\ and in there are folders like f:\sysvol\sysvol\MYDOMAIN.com\ Is it in there that the user information is stored?

Any pointers would be great.

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Hamish


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Posted 19 July 2005 - 02:46 AM

I think what you're referring is a roaming profile.

Yes, Active Directory is the proper technology to use for that purpose.

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Posted 19 July 2005 - 02:51 AM

thank you!! At least now I know the write words to search for!!

lol

hamish

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Posted 19 July 2005 - 11:43 AM

Well, thanx to Mr. Flames you know the word :)

You might wanna take a look here, it's quite good explained:

Working with Roaming User Profiles

Good luck.. or keep asking ! ;)

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