Truthfully I don't really suspect Paul's way would cause any problems at all. However, he indicated in his post that doing it that way might cause a setting or two to get left out. It is conceivable that since you're importing a fully populated profile as a default profile, windows might opt to leave out a thing or two that couldn't possibly be part of a clean default profile. who knows. you'd have to give it a try. He says it works for him though. The reason i did it the way I did is because each time you transfer the profile from one user to another you're letting windows do it gracefully rather than let the profile "heal" itself out the default profile folder. that way the user never knows the difference--it "thinks" the profile was there all along. Again, it probably doesn't make a difference, but I only had two users so the extra steps were reasonable.
As far as win2k, it's been awhile since I ran it at home, and I wasn't messing with profiles then, so I can't speak to that issue. The other way to do it would be to manually copy the entire profile directory over the network to your [profiles] share and set the permissions & owner on it. then give samba's profiles command a whirl on ntuser.dat. I wasn't able to try it because I couldn't find the profiles command on my system. good luck zach On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:34:13 -0700, Awful Hack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BTW, what problems do you think might crop up with Paul's way? I'll > probably have to do something like this shortly, and I'd like to know > what problems I might come across. > > > >(1) Log in as a local administrator on one of the XP clients > > >(2) Create a temporary user, eg test_user1 > > >(3) System Properties->Advanced->User Profiles:Settings button > > >(4) Choose the profile you're trying to migrate and click Copy To > > Is there similar functionality anywhere in W2K Pro, or some other > series of steps that would work? > > Awful Hack > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
