Steven:
Again, thanks for your suggestions. I did have to copy the shortcuts
specifically from one profile to the other, and I also used the
Transfer
Files and Settings Wizard. I assume that the Wizard for the most part
does
the same thing as copying the profile in from the users menu? Anyway,
this
time using the Wizard it seemed to work. I compared the desktop and
programs, and about 98-99% was transfered with these methods.
I did however, eat up about 2 gig of hard drive space to accomplish
this.
Oh well.
Best regards,
John
--
John N
:
Hmm. Compare the contents of the desktop and start menu folders
between
the
two user profiles to see if they are the same. If not for some reason
you
can copy missing shortcuts to the new profile. Another thing to try is
to
use the File and Settings Transfer Wizard. Go to accessories/system
tools
to
find it. You should be able to store your current files and settings
to a
file on your hard disk and then import it into the new profile from
that
file.
Steve
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/mgrtfset.mspx
--- File and Settings Transfer Wizard
Steven:
The way you described it below, is just how I did it. That is why I
was
surprised when I logged onto the new user profile, and it was not
the
same
as
my built-in Administrator account. I even did it again after it
didn't
work
the first time.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks
--
John N
:
I don't know exactly how you did it but this should work. Create
[even
if
just temporarily] another user account that is also an
administrator
and
use
this account to copy the profile from the built in administrator
account
to
the other user account that is also an administrator that you want
to
use.
The go to Control Panel/system and then select advanced/user
profiles -
settings. Then select copy to select the profile you want to copy
and
select
copy to. Browse to the profile folder you want to copy to under
documents
and settings. Select the folder with the user name and select OK.
Under
permitted to use select the user name that is going to use that
profile.
Then select OK and it should copy everything over to the new user
profile
selected.
Steve
Steven:
I don't know if you would be wiling, but I have a question posted
in
the
Configuration and Management section that no one has answered.
If
you
would
consider giving me some help on this issue, it would be
appreciated.
If
you
don't, that's fine, just say so. Here goes:
I have decided to create a new user profile (with administrator
rights)
and
not use the default (Administrator) user profile, as a precaution
to
not
mess
up my good Administrator profile.
So.....I copied the profile from the "Administrator" to the new
user
account
that has administrator rights. It copied just fine. When I
logged
in
under the new profile, I was expecting everything to look the
same,
and
that
the installed programs would work, etc. As it turns out, only
about
1/2
of
the icons transfered over, and many of the installed programs
like
Microsoft
Office, etc, are not installed in the new profile, although some
of
the
icons
show up.
Any thoughts on how I could do this again? The copy took about
15
minutes,
but it did finish with no reported errors. Maybe what I am
trying
to
accomplish can't be done?
Thanks for any help that you can give.
John N
--
John N
:
Hi Steven:
Thanks for your reply. Usually I get automatic notificaton of
your
responses, and this time I did not, so I am sorry that there has
been
a
few
days lapse here. I probably forgot to mark the "Notify me of
replies"
box
last time.
I checked the setting you mentioned, and it does not appear that
is
the
problem, as there was no check in that box at all. When I am at
the
server,
and log onto a workstation, that workstation immediately goes to
a
locked
login screen. During that time, you can work from the server
and
access
that
workstation, but you cannot have a person on the server and a
person
on
the
workstation at the same time. I assumed that you could have
concurrent
usage
like you can in PCAnywhere, but it does not appear to be the
case
with
Remote
Desktop. So perhaps, there is no problem at all, but just the
way
it
is
designed to work.
Thanks again for your help.
--
John N
:
The screensaver is probably configured to lock the computer
after
a
period
of idle time as a security measure if a user did not manually
lock
the
computer using Control-Alt-Delete - lock computer. Try going
to
Control
Panel/display - screen saver and uncheck "on resume password
protect".
Steve
Steven:
Once again, your suggestions worked just fine. Thanks.
As a follow up, after I logged onto the workstation from the
server,
and
then logged off, I went to the workstation. There was a
message
on
it
that
the workstation was locked and could only be unlocked by the
administrator.
This message however, does not show up on the server when I
log
onto
the
server from my home. So there must be a setting that I
could
change
so my
workstation does not "lock".
Again, any help you could give would be most appreciated.
John N
--
John N
:
Hi John.
To access a computer via RDP you need the user right for
allow
logon
through
Terminal Services on the computer you are trying to access.
Try
adding
your
user account to the Remote Desktop Users group which should
show
as
being
included for the user right for allow logon through
terminal
services.
You
could also try adding your user account to that user right.
Note
that
sever
user right have a corresponding "deny" user right and these
override
an
"allow" user right so make sure that there are no
users/groups
listed in
deny logon through Terminal Services that could be causing
you
to
get
that
message. When you are done configuring Local Security
Policy
run
the
command
gpupdate /force on your server.
Steve
Hi Steven:
Thank you very much, your suggestion worked just fine.
In
retrospect,
I
think that I turned changed that feature myself, and
didn't
know
that
would
