Question about roaming profiles in XP

[Martin]

The idea for a roaming profile is based on personalized
settings. Files such as my documents should not be
included in the profile folder but in a share on the
server and then a map created in the user account profile
path to give the user access where ever they log in. The
map wopuld be part of the roaming profile, but not the
actual documents themselves.

 

[Bruce]

Thanks of replying Martin,

Yes we are planning on giving the users their own network home drive
as you described. Also, as you suggested in your other article we are
planning to put the profile directory in the home drive (although
other people have said that is not a good idea and the profile should
be put on a seperate share aka \\server\profiles$\%username%). I can't
see a problem with it myself, it means the user will have one disk
quota rather than two (one for the network drive and one for the
profile). By the way, how would you go about hiding the profile
directory from the user?

Anyway, I was getting a bit sidetracked there, the thing is, it looks
like the "my documents" folder (and the desktop folder) is part of the
profile (or am I wrong about that?). What's to stop a user saving a
document to their my documents folder rather than their home drive? If
they do that it looks like the document will be part of the profile
and will get copied to all the client PCs which they logon to. That's
what we want to avoid. Maybe we could ban users from saving things
into their my documents folder, but I wouldn't really want to do that.

Any further advice appreciated.

Thanks,

Bruce.