Roaming Profiles

A user's profile contains information that defines the way the screen works, such as desktop colors and patterns, desktop icons, and so forth. Normally, a user profile works on just one workstation. However, a profile stored on the network (called a roaming profile) follows the user regardless of where the user logs in from. Each workstation on the network that the user logs in to will always have the same appearance. If applications are stored on the network, the user will also have access to the same applications.

You can enable a roaming profile or a mandatory profile and specify where the profile is to be stored. How changes to that profile are handled depends on the profile type.

Important: Roaming profiles have been disabled in this release in a NetWare^® environment where the workstations are not running the Novell Client^TM. If workstations access the Middle Tier Server using the Desktop Management Agent, you must install the Novell Client if you want to use roaming profiles.

Roaming profiles, however, are enabled in a Windows* environment where the workstations are not running the Novell Client but are running the Microsoft* SMB client.

If roaming profiles are to be stored on a NetWare file system, the Novell Client is required.

Roaming Profiles
Select this check box to enable roaming profiles.

Enable Storage of Roaming Profiles
Select this check box to enable the storage of roaming profiles. Choose from the following options to specify how you want roaming profiles managed:

Override Terminal Server Profile
If the user is accessing a Terminal Server that has its own profile, enable this option to override the Terminal Server's profile and use the roaming profile stored in the user's home directory or the profile stored in the network directory location specified in the Path box.

Store User Profile in User's Home Directory
Stores the roaming profile on the network in the eDirectory^TM user's home directory. This allows the user to utilize the same desktop environment on all workstations throughout the network. Any changes made to the user's environment on one workstation are saved to the profile stored in the user's home directory on the network. The environment specified in the profile is available on any workstation where the user subsequently logs in.

You can also choose to store the roaming profile on the network in the user's home directory using the unattend.txt file.

Store User Profile in Network Directory Location
Stores the user profile in a network directory location. You would use this option in an all-Windows environment.

When you enable this option, the Path box becomes available.

Path
Specify the UNC path to the user's roaming profile.

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