System Policies, User Profiles, and Scripts in an NT Domain

If you have an NT domain, you can set up roaming and mandatory user profiles on an NFS server. When a user logs in to a client running Solstice Network Client software, the user profile is downloaded from the NFS server. This allows you to take advantage of the speed and power of a Solaris server.

However, before setting up system policies, user profiles, and logon scripts you should be aware of the following restrictions in the way these features work on Solstice Network Client computers that are part of an NT domain.

• System policies - Users cannot download system policies from an NFS server. This is true whether the user has a local or domain NT user account on the client.

• Logon scripts - Users cannot download the ntlogon.bat script from an NFS server to a client running Windows NT Workstation. Users can download the ntlogon.bat script from an NFS server to a client running Windows NT Server.

• User profiles - Users can download user profiles from an NFS server to all clients running the Solstice Network Client software. If you include any files, for example a bitmap file as a background, in user profiles for NT domain users, those files must be stored on the client. If they are not stored on the client, the user profile will not be downloaded.