Hi Alex, hi Charles, hi others, Thank you for your answers.
============== A little aside ============== (I want to say that) if Microsoft provided people with: - a great documentation about its "profile" concept - and also, about its registry (name, use and possible values of the various keys) it would prevent me (and others) from modifying the registry in a hazardous way. Having said that, learn that my laptop being new, I can reinstall it if I happen to do something very wrong with my registry. For example, the key "State" in every profile: it can have various values meaning specific things (I guess) but I didn't manage to find the documentation for it The only little bit of information I found is on that web page: http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/94677/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-state-value-name-in-a-users-registry-profile.html And it is totally insufficient. I can do nothing with it. ===================================================== Just to try to agree on what I mean when I talk about "(Windows) profiles" ===================================================== To me, a (Windows) profile is a set of specific settings concerning both: - the various executables installed on the machine (for example: having a google toolbar in your web browser, having certain settings for your email client, ...) - and also the operating system "itself" (for example: having a particular background image on your desktop, having certain settings for your folders display, having certain environment variables set to particular values, ...). Ok? Do we agree on that approximative definition? ===================================================== Just to try to be "straight" about my problem... ===================================================== As I said, I alternately log on my computer running XP as: - HOSTNAME\lmhelp - or as DOMAINNAME_1\lmhelp - or even as DOMAINNAME_2\lmhelp (not at the same time). With XP, in the three cases, I do manage to work with the same settings (the same profile as described above). ============== Charles' links ============== Thank you, I read both of them. First link: ----------- (XP Local User Profiles in a domain environment) It is not about Vista. And also, it doesn't solve the problem I evoke. I just noticed, pardon me, a kind of "approximation" in what is being said: "Domain profile is like this 'username.domainname' whereas local profile is known only by the user name". That is not generally true. When I logged on as "DOMAINNAME_1\lmhelp", a specific directory "C:\Users\lmhelp.DOMAINNAME_1" was created. But, modulo the registry change I did (cf. the end of my last post), when I go to "System -> Advanced -> User Profiles", the profile "DOMAINNAME_1\lmhelp" is said to be local. Apparently "domain profile" and "local profile" are not antinomic notions, contrary to what is said in the link. Second link ----------- (Cached domain logon information) This is interesting but is not exactly the problem I have because when my laptop is not part of the domain "DOMAINNAME_1", I do not try to log on as "DOMAINNAME_1\lmhelp". I log on to my local machine as "HOSTNAME\lmhelp". ======= To Alex ======= > [...] the two domains you're logging on to trust each other [...] I'll try to understand what it means. > Whatever you've managed to make XP do, I'm pretty sure > it isn't a Microsoft-supported configuration - unless > someone else here knows better? Possibly, but with XP I've never had any problems with that. On the contrary, it completely sastified me (apart from the fact I whish I didn't had to use Windows operating systems...). Again, thanks for your contributions and for the time you dedicate to my problem. -- Lmhelp -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Vista---Profile---Local-tp20416486p20478301.html Sent from the Samba - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba