User Profiles Local vs Domain

[Jeffrey Bard]

Hi all,

I'm having problems with a few of my user profiles. The static ones in
the office work great, but I have a couple of employees that take
their laptops with them, and work on them while not connected to our
SBS domain.

My issue is that after their machine is initialized for use on the
network, the new profile created is associated with the SBS domain,
and has no association with the local machine. I can't see the profile
under "Local Users" in the Computer Management console (though I can
see them under Manage User Accounts) , and when they attempt to log
onto the local machine using
computername\profilename, they get a bad password error. They can log
onto the local machine only if they have another local user account
set up (which they do, but... meh).

There has to be a way for them to do both, right? To log onto the
domain and their own computer with the same profile? I'm not having
this problem with any of my XP machines, so I'm not quite sure what's
up.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[Frankster]

Can't they logon when away using the cached profile on their machines from
the Domain by simply logging on to the Domain when away? I know they'll get
the "can't logon to Domain" error (or similar) but it should let them log on
and use their cached profile, right? Truly, I've not tested this on Vista.
But that's how XP works. Maybe they don't know how to logon to the Domain
in Vista, because it is a little different.

DOMAINNAME\userid [enter]

In XP you didn't have to type it. It was left over in the pulldown window.

-Frank

 

[bp]

Can't they logon when away using the cached profile on their machines from
the Domain by simply logging on to the Domain when away? I know they'll get
the "can't logon to Domain" error (or similar) but it should let them log on
and use their cached profile, right? Truly, I've not tested this on Vista.
But that's how XP works. Maybe they don't know how to logon to the Domain
in Vista, because it is a little different.

DOMAINNAME\userid [enter]

In XP you didn't have to type it. It was left over in the pulldown window.

-Frank

Speaking of loggin on
Can we get rid of this fast switching sigh on screen? I want to use
the old style. In XP you could turn it off but I can't find anything
so far in Vista to do the same.

 

[Frankster]

Speaking of loggin on

Can we get rid of this fast switching sigh on screen?

I haven't been able to find a way yet either. I just looked in the policy
editor and couldn't find it there either. O'course, I may have just
overlooked it. I dunno... I don't like it either.

Anyone?

-Frank

 

[Dave R.]

I haven't been able to find a way yet either. I just looked in the
policy editor and couldn't find it there either. O'course, I may have
just overlooked it. I dunno... I don't like it either.

Anyone?

I found this in another thread & saved it for when my Vista test &
evaluation machine arrives. Hope it helps, but I've not tested it so
report back with results if you don't mind.

Disable fast user switching and welcome screen (desired to more
completely "brand" the system) - The following should force the
"classic" logon:
Click Start
- Click Control Panel
- Click System and Maintenance
- Click Administrative Tools
- Double-Click Local Security Policy
- In the left pane, click the triangle next to Local Policy
- In the left pane, click Security Options
- In the right pane, double-click "Interactive logon: Do not display
last user name"
- Click Enabled and then OK
- In the right pane, double-click "Interactive logon: Do not require
CTRL+ALT+DEL"
- Click Disabled and then OK

Best Regards,

Dave

 

[bp]

I found this in another thread & saved it for when my Vista test &
evaluation machine arrives. Hope it helps, but I've not tested it so
report back with results if you don't mind.

Hmmm All that does is remove the dorky picture I had to pick for my
profile. The frame is there it's just empty.

Oh well

 

[Dave R.]

Hmmm All that does is remove the dorky picture I had to pick for my
profile. The frame is there it's just empty.

Oh well

Just found another possibility:

You can disable fast user switching by going to gpedit.msc ...

Administrative Templates -> System -> Logon -> Hide entry points for
Fast
User Switching = Enabled

If you have a Home version of Vista, you'll need to make the change in
the registry. Run regedit and navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Create a DWORD (32-bit) Value named HideFastUserSwitching
Set the Value data for HideFastUserSwitching to 1

Hope this helps.

Dave