What I'm not getting anyway is why not just
set up the damn MMC for each user, instead
of trying to set up one profile to fit all users.
THAT! is a productive question. Thank you.
There are several problems with the way MMC is set up in each profile.
First, it creates a new time-shift file for each user. Each one is based on
maintaining X amount of free disk space. In other words, one of them can be
a reasonable size and all other users are left without enough disk space to
do useful time-delay viewing. This means you need to logon with
administrator rights to access all profiles, search for *.vcr, and delete
the existing time-delay files to make the feature useful again for other
users.
Otherwise, with only three users, you'll be using 30 to 150GB when only 10
to 50GB could do the same job. With more users, the situation is even
worse.
But even if the sharing problem were solved, all this disk space gets used
on the system partition! So clearly, the goal is to allow us to point the
time-shift file to the one common place where we want all users to use it,
and share it.
Another problem with the way MMC is set up in each profile is that the
recording schedule is maintained for each user. That means if you schedule
a recording, it won't work if you have multiple users. That's because the
"Best Practice" is for each user to log off after using the computer, or let
the server force a log-off after a period of inactivity.
But even if nobody logs off, it won't work because someone else will have
logged on, and be using the computer in the evening, when most of the shows
you want to record are on. With three users, there's only a 33% chance that
the right user will be logged on at the right time. With more users, or
using the log-off best practice, the situation becomes even worse.
There are other problems that seem minor by comparison. For example, if you
prefer a particular "default" recording quality that fits your disk size, it
will surely get set differently in each of the profiles that matter.
The ideal situation would be for the MMC services to be run in the
background by the system, and for all users to share the same MMC settings.
Any user would be free to over-ride defaults when scheduling a recording.
And, yes, any user could potentially mess with another user's settings just
as they could today with printers and other resources that are shared.
In this way, the MMC could record a program while nobody is logged on.
After all, we all know that nobody is "required" to logon. Don't we?
JAD said:
why don't you two make up a list of things that can be done without fully
logging in and things that require logging in, then argue
each and everyone....your both nickpicking words and meanings.....BESIDES
THIS IS NOT alt -OS -windows .XP! What I'm not getting
anyway is why not just set up the damn MMC for each user, instead of
trying to set up one profile to fit all users.
