Anyone know about profiles?

[JethroUK©]

i have a 16 machines sharing same profile (student/user turnaround is far
too big to create individual ones)

the shared profile works fine when new (about 4 meg) - but profiles seem to
save back allllll temporary files (on logout), but it 'only' loads in
missing ones (on login)

end result is that the profile soon saves every temp file from every
machines & loads all those files back on every machine - which means the
profile very soon explodes to 30-40 meg

i've tried:

deleting all temp files from the profile - but it makes no difference
because it wont load them in - but it will save them back from all the
machines again - so when they log-off it's back how it started
write protecting the whole profile (read only) - but windows doesn't like it
write protecting just temp internet & cookies folder - but it doesn't like
that either
tried deleting the cookie folder all together - but windows just creates
another one and fills it up again - grrrrrrrrrrrr


any ideas?

 

[Brian McMullen]

Do you have roaming profiles turned on?
Maybe setup a batch file to run during off hours to delete all data in the
temp directory?

~B

 

[Guest]

It's possible to adjust the registry so that temporary files aren't included
in the roaming profile. (or as mentioned, use a script to delete them.)

However, (and I'm not sure I fully grasp your setup) but sharing a single
roaming profile between several users is unwise. If two computers create an
identically-named file then only one version will survive in the shared
profile, leading to data loss. If that is what you're doing I suggest looking
to an alternative approach.

As to what kind of setup you need, that would depend if each student uses
the same computer throughout, or not. If so, use fixed profiles, and just zap
the profile when the student finishes the course.. If students must be able
to change seat, then I'd think in terms of giving each student a home folder
on a server to store their work, and aplying a mandatory profile to all
computers, so any changes to its settings are removed at each logon.