XP Roaming Profiles

[LeDeau]

I have 4 XP Pro machines on a workgroup. They are all on the same workgroup name, and they are pulling their roaming profiles off of a single machine. The machine acts as a server, althought it really isn't. Still, I've done this with 2000 Pro with no problems. The profiles are all stored on a shared folder and the call statement just calls %username%.usr would changing it to %username%.man make a dirrerence? These things take about 3-4 minutes to load up, and the profiles are 3 MB max. Any ideas? Thanks in advance...

 

[wolluf]

So they're not really roaming profiles - are you using a batch file/logon script to load them?

Can I ask why you need 'roaming' profiles on a 4 machine workgroup (rather than using your 'server' as a file server for personal files, for example).

 

[LeDeau]

Not sure why you would say that they aren't really roaming profiles. The entire profile is pulled off of a server. And no, they aren't loaded through a batch file, although I am running logon/logout scripts also. We're using roaming profiles so that we don't have to reload things on every machine and so the setttings are the same no matter where you logon to.

 

[wolluf]

What I mean is roaming profiles are managed by an NT or 2k server machine on a domain. You have obviously implemented some mechanism to pick up profile from same place whichever machine you log onto in a workgroup to give similar functionality. Speed, or lack of it, is normally caused by size of profiles - they tend to get bigger, as they contain temporary files & my documents & outlook express email files - so take longer to load (and save).

I was wondering why you do this on such a small network - its easy to set up machines so users have same settings on each, and you could use a shared area on the file server to save personal files to (mapped by logon script?) - so you wouldn't be loading and saving them all the time (but I may be way off beam with your set up - just a suggestion)