To Set Up Mandatory User Profiles on Windows 95

Make sure user profiles are enabled for each computer.

You can avoid enabling user profiles on each computer by creating a system policy that enables user profiles on all clients. When the user logs in, Windows downloads the policies from the server and copies the information to the Registry on the client.

1. Make sure either NIS or NIS+ is configured as the name service on the client.

   When NIS or NIS+ is configured, the Automounter automatically mounts the user's home directory. If you configure the DNS or Files-based name service but not NIS or NIS+, the Automounter does not automatically mount user's home directories and user profiles stored in those directories are not downloaded to the client. "To Configure NIS or NIS+"

2. In the Passwords option in Control Panel, click the User Profiles tab.

3. Select Users Can Customize Their Preferences And Desktop Settings.

4. Select the options you want under User Profile Settings.

   These options describe what should be included as part of the user profile.

5. Shut down and restart the computer.

6. In the Network option in Control Panel, make sure Solstice NFS Client is listed as the Primary Network Logon.

7. On any computer running Windows 95, customize the desktop as you want it to be for the mandatory user profile.

8. Copy the USER.DAT file to the user's home directory on the server.

9. Rename USER.DAT to USER.MAN in the user's home directory.

   Windows 95 recognizes the .MAN file extension as a mandatory user profile.