Someone once told me that it is possible (but a bit fiddly) to have roaming user profiles (a la NT WS) using 95 as a client with NT Server.

Anyone tried this? Failing that, I only want to be able to have a user log onto any 95 machine and access their email. Shortcut to Outlook is for whichever person I set up and anyone else cannot log onto email.

1. Enable user profiles on the Win95 station: Control Panel>Passwords>User Profiles. Choose how you want them to work and reboot.

2. Set the profile to roam through the user's home folder:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Network\Logon]
"UseHomeDirectory"=dword:00000001


After a reboot you should see a USER.DAT in their home folder.

I don't have the exact registry settings for the roaming profiles as that was developed for me by our parent company and I just run a .exe file. Since we're in the process of retiring 95 I've never dug into it. If you need to roll this to a lot of stations there is a utility called "RegSnap" available on hotfiles.com that you could use to take registry snapshots before and after step 1. This is a great utility that can automatically generate redo and undo .reg files easily for this kind of thing. Highly recommended.