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One profile for domain or local use.
Hi,
I want to be able to logon to my laptop when not on my domain but still have the same desktop and icons - in effect one profile.
Is there a way to syncronize my domain user account on my laptop, so that I don't have to create a separate user for use when disconnected from the domain.
Cheers!
I want to be able to logon to my laptop when not on my domain but still have the same desktop and icons - in effect one profile.
Is there a way to syncronize my domain user account on my laptop, so that I don't have to create a separate user for use when disconnected from the domain.
Cheers!
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There's two ways this should work:
One is to copy the domain profile over top of the local one (so you still have 2 profiles, but they're both the same). This isn't so good, because you have to recopy whenever there's changes. (You do this in the properties of My Computer, User Profiles tab)
The second way is to modify the registry so that your local user account is referencing the domain profile.
In this way, you are only using 1 profile.
In the reg, expand:
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Wi ndows NT/Current Version/ProfileList/
What you se are SIDs of all the users that have profiles on the PC.
Each SID subkey has a value called "ProfileImagePath" which points to the user's profile.
Find the SID which is pointing to the Domain profile, and copy and paste the ProfileImagePath value overtop of the value for the SID of the local user. Ie, both of the ProfileImagePaths will now be the same.
The other important thing to do is make sure that the local user has the permissions to access the domain profile. You should be able to do this by changing the file system permissions.
HTH,
JP
One is to copy the domain profile over top of the local one (so you still have 2 profiles, but they're both the same). This isn't so good, because you have to recopy whenever there's changes. (You do this in the properties of My Computer, User Profiles tab)
The second way is to modify the registry so that your local user account is referencing the domain profile.
In this way, you are only using 1 profile.
In the reg, expand:
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Wi
What you se are SIDs of all the users that have profiles on the PC.
Each SID subkey has a value called "ProfileImagePath" which points to the user's profile.
Find the SID which is pointing to the Domain profile, and copy and paste the ProfileImagePath value overtop of the value for the SID of the local user. Ie, both of the ProfileImagePaths will now be the same.
The other important thing to do is make sure that the local user has the permissions to access the domain profile. You should be able to do this by changing the file system permissions.
HTH,
JP
JammyPak is unnecessarily complicated. Stoner79 is correct: once you have authenticated to the domain, on your network, once, you will be able to log-in off-line....just log into the domain rather than the local machine.....your login credentials will be cached...net result, same profile on or off line.
It is perhaps a little complex, but there is a difference between logging on to a local user account and logging in to a cached domain account. Logging into a cached domain account may not give callumb the rights/priviledges he/she's looking for. If it does, then yeah, just use the cached domain account.
Actually it's not too complex, but yes, there is a difference between a local user account and logging in to a cached domain account....they are two different profiles, which is exactly the point....as I read Callumb's first post, he/she want to use the same profile both online and off...."in effect one profile" :-)
just to add to the above comments, if you wanted to also have the domain network shares available for the cashed profile, just right click on the network share and click on "make available offline". It might take a long time for it to sync initially, but then your network shares will be available offline (disconnected from domain).
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lehan
I've setup local user accounts to read mandatory profiles copied locally C:.
This is how it works.
Profile is stored at C:\Winnt\LocalProfile
User "matrix" will have Profile path set to C:\Winnt\LocalProfile
Since my needs is to use this profile as a mandatory there are no changes made by matrix to the profile located at C:\Winnt\LocalProfile
I think you should be able to setup your local user account with a profile path pointing to your domain user profile. When you logon as the local user it will copy the profile from the locally stored copy of the domain user profile. It's a bonus if logging off the local user account it copies it back to the locally stored copy of the domain user profile.
Domain User Account: domuser Profile Path: Set by your Domain Administrator Profile on Local HD: C:\Winnt\Profiles\domuser
Local User Account: localuser Profile Path: C:\Winnt\Profiles\domuser Profile on Local HD: C:\Winnt\Profiles\localuse r
This is how it works.
Profile is stored at C:\Winnt\LocalProfile
User "matrix" will have Profile path set to C:\Winnt\LocalProfile
Since my needs is to use this profile as a mandatory there are no changes made by matrix to the profile located at C:\Winnt\LocalProfile
I think you should be able to setup your local user account with a profile path pointing to your domain user profile. When you logon as the local user it will copy the profile from the locally stored copy of the domain user profile. It's a bonus if logging off the local user account it copies it back to the locally stored copy of the domain user profile.
Domain User Account: domuser Profile Path: Set by your Domain Administrator Profile on Local HD: C:\Winnt\Profiles\domuser
Local User Account: localuser Profile Path: C:\Winnt\Profiles\domuser Profile on Local HD: C:\Winnt\Profiles\localuse
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I had tried this a while back. When disconected from the network and trying to logon locally I would get the message that the domain could not be contacted. Since then I have reinstalled Windows 2000 and all seems well for now. I'll have to see if there are any problems regarding group policies and rights issues. For now - thanks to everyone for all ideas!
I think JimmyPak's solution was right. It only uses one profile, which means you don't get update problems when switch between profiles.
check if your Local ID have domain admin rights, if u do then U can copy the domain profiles to your local profile. U may want to consider wrting a mini script so that everytime U logon to either profile, it will do the necessary copy or "synchronisation"