Profiles in XP

[mjwillyone]

I have 10 new and identical computers. Computer a is set up for user a. The others have not yet been turned on for the first time. I purchased Norton Ghost software to duplicate computer a to the other computers. All software that is on computer a is licensed for 10 computers. I want all users to have all rights to any software I put on any of the computers. I don't want independent user profiles where each has their own screen background, icons, etc. If one user changes the screen background and logs out, the next user will come to find the background changed. Can this be done????

Thanks,

Mike

[eyeball]

if your talking about this in an environment without a server and with a single user account on each machine that is customizable but only for the period the user is logged on, then do the following....

logon as the local administrator to the machine you setup and locate the other users profile in this profile you will find a HIDDEN file (so make sure they are visible first) called NTUSER.dat, all you have to do is rename this to NTUSER.man and this will prevent any changes made to this profile from being retained once the user logs off

now you can go ahead and ghost those 10 pc's!!

hope this helps

Thanks

Edited November 19, 2005 by eyeball

[jftuga]

This might work for you, but I'm not really sure. It may be worth a look...

Microsoft's Shared Computer Toolkit

-John

[mjwillyone]

John,

Thanks for the help. I will download the MS software and see if it will work for me.

Mike

[InTheWayBoy]

Sounds to me like you need roaming profiles...or folder redirection. Either one should work for you...but both require an Active Directory based network.

The manditory profile that a user previously suggested will work too, but the thing you have to take into account is how to sync the profiles across all the computers. Without the two features I mentioned, you'll either have to devise your own login script to handle all that, or do it manually on each machine. But then when you change something on one, you'll need to manually change it for all of them.

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, which is quite easy these days