atari37 Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 This might sound stupid but does windows create a profile for users who don't login locally or remotely to a workstation or server?I just realized that one of my users has a profile on our file server...by profile I mean, when I go to documents and settings, his username has a directory with desktop, start menu, etc in it. I'm trying to figure out if he logged into the server and how. He must have physically or remotely logged in for a profile to be created right?
cluberti Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 If you ever log on to the server (either at the console, over RDP, or starting an application as a service under that user account), you get a profile. Accounts that have never logged on, should not have a profile.
atari37 Posted July 26, 2007 Author Posted July 26, 2007 The only way that this user is allowed to have access to the server is through manually mounting a couple of shared drives on the server. He is required to enter a password because his workstation doesn't belong to our DC but he however has a user account in our AD. I don't see why he will be the only person out of 12 people to have a personal profile on the server. There's something fishy going on. I just want to have all the facts before I approach him.
nmX.Memnoch Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 As cluberti said...he's definitely at least tried to logon to the system. What kind of permissions does his AD account have?
atari37 Posted July 28, 2007 Author Posted July 28, 2007 As cluberti said...he's definitely at least tried to logon to the system. What kind of permissions does his AD account have?The user is only a member of the domain users...he claims he hasn't logged into the server directly.
cluberti Posted July 28, 2007 Posted July 28, 2007 Has he perhaps attempted to run any applications from the network share directly (stored the app there and launched it from there)?
atari37 Posted July 29, 2007 Author Posted July 29, 2007 Has he perhaps attempted to run any applications from the network share directly (stored the app there and launched it from there)?I know of one application that most access from one of the network shared drives but at least 20 people use this application on a daily basis but this user is the only one with a profile on the server.
cluberti Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 Hmm... I can't think of any other possible explanations, but I guess anything is possible.
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