Profiles

Posted: 09-13-2006, 08:21 PM

Scott Putney

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After Installing Vista RC1 (build 5600), the local account that was created
during the setup process creates a local profile on the machine at login,
after joining to a domain, any domain account that is used to login creates a
roaming profile. I am unable to change to a local profile. I have tried the
following scenarios:

Give admin rights to the domain account before first login
logging in with the local admin account and attempting to change profile
from local to roaming.
Reformatted the machine and reinstalled OS
It appears this is the default path Vista takes on a domain account. Another
thought I had was to look at the group policies on the Domain account and I
do not see anything requiring a roaming profile as a matter of fact, it's
been explicitly disabled. Our Windows XP and 2000 clients can not enable
roaming profiles. Has anyone noticed this and have a fix? I get a temporary
profile with every domain login session.

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Dippy

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RE: Profiles

Posted: 09-14-2006, 01:11 AM

Hi Scott,

This is a known security test going on with Vista Pre-release builds.

The FIX for your problem is:

1. When you join the machine the machine to the domain, at that time when it
ask you to reboot, do not reboot
2. Instead go to the Control Panel and under User and Account Settings, add
your domain user name to the Administrator Group
3. Then you can safely log off and log back in

The BUG here is
1. When you join the machine to the domain, the default Administrator
account gets locked out
2. Before joining the machine to the domain, users have to create another
administrator Account on the local machine (which is way beyond expectation
for layman)
3. Then you logon to the new user account on the local machine which is a
part of the administrator group and then join the machine to the domain.

*****If you miss the step of creating a new Administrative user account
before joining the machine to the domain, mind you, you would have to rebuild
the Vista image and start all over from scratch******

"Scott Putney" wrote:

> After Installing Vista RC1 (build 5600), the local account that was created
> during the setup process creates a local profile on the machine at login,
> after joining to a domain, any domain account that is used to login creates a
> roaming profile. I am unable to change to a local profile. I have tried the
> following scenarios:
>
> Give admin rights to the domain account before first login
> logging in with the local admin account and attempting to change profile
> from local to roaming.
> Reformatted the machine and reinstalled OS
> It appears this is the default path Vista takes on a domain account. Another
> thought I had was to look at the group policies on the Domain account and I
> do not see anything requiring a roaming profile as a matter of fact, it's
> been explicitly disabled. Our Windows XP and 2000 clients can not enable
> roaming profiles. Has anyone noticed this and have a fix? I get a temporary
> profile with every domain login session.

Flak

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Profiles

Posted: 09-26-2006, 05:16 PM

One of the problems i see often is a family computer with a profile for each
person in the house. The kids downloading crap like zango and the likes
infecting the system etc. What i think would be a good idea in eliminating
cross profile infection is :

When someone i.e. kids install a program it is only allowed to load when
their profile is logged in to. When Dad for example comes home from work and
logs in it should pop up and say "Kid 1 has installed Program whatever.
Would you like this to be accessable to your profile?"

When the OS loads up it will only run the core components that the OS needs
to load. In vista only components the are flagged as ships with OS get to
load.

And when any user logs in it will only allow to run the programs either they
install or they have allowed to run.

Also an idea about the admin account on XP home. We need a profile that is
only accessable under certain conditions like safe mode that cannot be
infected, possibly using the above idea. A profile that will not allow any
non microsoft OS components to run. This should allow for scanning every
part of every profile while not allowing the content of these profiles to be
viewed by human eyes.

Microsoft already know how to indentify quite a few anti virus utilities.
In XP the security center pops up saying AVG Free anti virus needs updating.
These would be the only exceptions to the non microsoft rule for programs
running.

Don't know if i have explained this very well.
I await your Flames ;-)
Flak

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USer account problems

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profiles

Posted: 03-18-2007, 08:01 PM

I'm trying to run some programs on my computer and when I do a pop up come up
stating limited user accounts are not supported???? I also see a 3rd user on
my PC that I did not create. I don't know how to fix this!!! Help!!!!!

Stephen Norman

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RE: profiles

Posted: 03-21-2007, 02:43 AM

Try disabling UAC in the User Accounts control panel.

"USer account problems" wrote:

> I'm trying to run some programs on my computer and when I do a pop up come up
> stating limited user accounts are not supported???? I also see a 3rd user on
> my PC that I did not create. I don't know how to fix this!!! Help!!!!!

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