Help with workgroup

[Kyle]

Hello!

We have an employee that has a laptop computer that is a member of our
network (a domain). Today, he was in a partner company's office (a
workgroup setup) and thier tech joined him to thier workgroup. This
apparently deleted all of the domain user accounts that was on his machine.

The immediate problem is that his 'My Documents' folder (that is
synchronized to our server) is now empty. It appears that during the
network switch, all of this data was lost.

My quesiton is where should this be located on the C: drive? Did the 'My
Documents' actually get lost or is it buried somewhere on the C: drive?

 

[Herb Martin]

We have an employee that has a laptop computer that is a member of our

network (a domain). Today, he was in a partner company's office (a
workgroup setup) and thier tech joined him to thier workgroup. This
apparently deleted all of the domain user accounts that was on his

machine.

Doesn't work that way. Domain accounts are NEVER "on a machine"
like that.

Only machine specific accounts are on workstations and joining a machine
to a workgroup, or a domain -- or to ten different domains sequentially --
will not affect those machine accounts or any account on any other domain.

The immediate problem is that his 'My Documents' folder (that is
synchronized to our server) is now empty. It appears that during the
network switch, all of this data was lost.

Ah, now that is different -- My Documents are (usually) specific to the
account (not the name but the ACCONT which is domain specific.)

The data is not lost if it is on your server (first thing do a deep xcopy of
all
that data to a second location so you can always recover it -- and/or
protect last weeks server backups.)

This stuff is COPYABLE from one location to another once you have his
machine back into the domain.

In the future have him authenticate EXPLICTLY to use "other" workgroup
resources, i.e., continue to logon to YOUR domain but give specific
credentials to mount drives etc. for other accounts.

My quesiton is where should this be located on the C: drive? Did the 'My
Documents' actually get lost or is it buried somewhere on the C: drive?

Actually, I was going to skip this part due to your report (missing info),
but his original
info should not have been lost EITHER -- it should still be in the
C:\Documents and
Settings\<account name> area or wherever such profiles were stored
(see profile and/or Group Policy.)

 

[Kyle]

Yes, I know that it is on the server and it is not actually lost an yes it
is backed up everynight and I know that the user accounts are not actually
on the machine. I know that once the machine is joined back to the domain
here and he logs in with his username, the my documents will synchronize.
But he is not here, and will not be for some time.

His my documents is not in the Documents and Settings.

My quesiton is where are offline files cached on the local machine?

 

[Herb Martin]

Yes, I know that it is on the server and it is not actually lost an yes it
is backed up everynight and I know that the user accounts are not actually
on the machine. I know that once the machine is joined back to the domain
here and he logs in with his username, the my documents will synchronize.
But he is not here, and will not be for some time.

His my documents is not in the Documents and Settings.

My quesiton is where are offline files cached on the local machine?

Boy, none of that is what you asked or indicated in your original request --
you didn't even mention Offline File Caching....oh, well....

Offline files are cached in \%systemroot%\csc and there is a utility in
the Server Resource Kits called Cache Mover (cachemov.exe) but
you (or especially your remote user) probably shouldn't mess with it.

The cache is really designed to support the permissions (by SID) on
the cached stuff.


--
Herb Martin

machine.

Doesn't work that way. Domain accounts are NEVER "on a machine"
like that.

Only machine specific accounts are on workstations and joining a machine
to a workgroup, or a domain -- or to ten different domains sequentially --
will not affect those machine accounts or any account on any other domain.


Ah, now that is different -- My Documents are (usually) specific to the
account (not the name but the ACCONT which is domain specific.)

The data is not lost if it is on your server (first thing do a deep

xcopy

 

[Kyle]

Server Resource Kit? The remote machine is not a server and does not have
this utility.

Yes, I know that it is on the server and it is not actually lost an yes it
is backed up everynight and I know that the user accounts are not actually
on the machine. I know that once the machine is joined back to the domain
here and he logs in with his username, the my documents will synchronize.
But he is not here, and will not be for some time.

His my documents is not in the Documents and Settings.

My quesiton is where are offline files cached on the local machine?

Boy, none of that is what you asked or indicated in your original request --
you didn't even mention Offline File Caching....oh, well....

Offline files are cached in \%systemroot%\csc and there is a utility in
the Server Resource Kits called Cache Mover (cachemov.exe) but
you (or especially your remote user) probably shouldn't mess with it.

The cache is really designed to support the permissions (by SID) on
the cached stuff.