Users on another Drive ?

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I was asked a question by a friend, to which i do not know the answer too.

Is it possible to use the windows logon screen to log onto a user on a
seperate harddrive ?

normaly you would have USER that links to C:/Documents And Settings/USER/
is it possible to make windows logon like the following...

USER1 links to C:/Documents And Settings/USER1/
USER2 links to C:/Documents And Settings/USER2/
USER3 links to L:/Documents And Settings/USER3/

i was just wondering if this is possible.
 
Hi,

No, it's not possible. First, all user profiles are stored in a common
location (IE: the same \doc and settings directory) regardless if its a
workgroup or domain with roaming profiles. Second, if the target user
account is on another drive from a different installation, it won't work
because the security descriptors will not match the current installation.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Martman said:
I was asked a question by a friend, to which i do not know the answer too.

Is it possible to use the windows logon screen to log onto a user on a
seperate harddrive ?

normaly you would have USER that links to C:/Documents And Settings/USER/
is it possible to make windows logon like the following...

USER1 links to C:/Documents And Settings/USER1/
USER2 links to C:/Documents And Settings/USER2/
USER3 links to L:/Documents And Settings/USER3/

i was just wondering if this is possible.
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You may be able to use mountvol.exe and linkd.exe to do what you want:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=205524

First you would type 'mountvol.exe' at the prompt to get the Volume GUID of
drive L:.

Then you would use mountvol.exe to mount drive L: to a local folder on Drive
C:. Something like:

mountvol.exe c:\moreusr \ \?\Volume{<this is the volume guid for L:>}

So, you would now have a path on drive C: that actually pointed to drive L:.
Example:

cd c:\moreusr\documents and settings\user3\ and so on and so forth.

Manually create the USER3 folder under the C:\Documents and Settings. Now
we are ready for linkd.exe to work some magic (hopefully):

linkd.exe c:\documents and settings\user3 c:\moreusr\documents and
settings\user3

I can't think of any reason why that would not work. Mountvol and Linkd are
available in the Windows 2003 Resource Kit Tools:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

carl
 
Vagabond Software said:
You may be able to use mountvol.exe and linkd.exe to do what you want:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=205524

First you would type 'mountvol.exe' at the prompt to get the Volume GUID
of drive L:.

Then you would use mountvol.exe to mount drive L: to a local folder on
Drive C:. Something like:

mountvol.exe c:\moreusr \ \?\Volume{<this is the volume guid for L:>}

So, you would now have a path on drive C: that actually pointed to drive
L:. Example:

cd c:\moreusr\documents and settings\user3\ and so on and so forth.

Manually create the USER3 folder under the C:\Documents and Settings. Now
we are ready for linkd.exe to work some magic (hopefully):

linkd.exe c:\documents and settings\user3 c:\moreusr\documents and
settings\user3

I can't think of any reason why that would not work. Mountvol and Linkd
are available in the Windows 2003 Resource Kit Tools:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

carl
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Actually, I can think of several reasons why it wouldn't work. You would
have to first force the system to create the USER3, but that may still leave
some problems. It would be easier to just create the user on C: and
transfer the files and settings from L:.

Sorry,

carl
 
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