In this case we would set the user profile path to that particular directory. If we copy existing user profile to the shared folder, we have to ensure that the proper permissions are set on that folder, so that only particular user has access to it. We can either copy existing profile to the network share or we can simply define new profile path for particular user. We will use this path when providing profile path for particular user ( \\server\profiles\%username% syntax). The UNC (Universal Naming Convention) path to this folder is now \\server\profiles\. In this example, we have created shared folder called Profiles on a computer named server. To create a roaming profile we have to create a shared folder on some server. Mandatory profile is a read only profile, so that any changes made by a user will be lost when they log off. We would use Roaming profile if we often log on to multiple computers on the network, and we want our settings to follow us around. Another type of profile that we can create is the Mandatory user profile. Image 178.2 – Administrator Profile Types of ProfilesĪlong with local profile we can also have a Roaming user profile. Note that hidden files have to be shown to see NTUSER.dat file. In the picture below we can see Administrator profile. Specific user files are contained in folders like Desktop, My Documents etc. If we open a folder for some particular user we will see, among other things, an NTUSER.dat file, which contains user settings. Image 178.1 – Documents and Settings Folder
Inside this directory we will see a folder for each user which has logged on to the computer. In Windows XP user profiles are stored in C:\Documents and Settings\ folder. User profile contains all of our custom settings that we have made to our computer. Key terms: profile, user, account, documents, ntuser, roaming, mandatory Prerequisites: you should know what is user profile in general and how to manage user accounts in XP. Objectives: learn where to find user profile, how to create roaming or mandatory profile and how to change target locations for specific folders.
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