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Hi, I have just installed the Windows XP Pro in my
laptop. My laptop will join the domain in office. I have
1 domain user account and 1 local user account setup for
the laptop. How can I use the same user profile for
these 2 accounts? I don't want to copy my profile from
the domain account to the local user account since the
bookmarks and stuff under "My Documents" change
frequently. I just want to able to update and use my
bookmarks no matter I login as a domain user or local
user. Is that possible?

Thanks for your help.

Billy
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There is no reason for you to do this.

You can set XP, actually it does it by default where it will cache the
credentials of the last user that logged in successfully. By using the
Local Security MMC you can set it to remember the n number of logins as
well.

So you can login to the domain, go home and log back in with your domain
account as the user/pass will be remembered.

You should keep the second account in case for some reason you get locked
out.

- rg
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Hi, I have just installed the Windows XP Pro in my
laptop. My laptop will join the domain in office. I have
1 domain user account and 1 local user account setup for
the laptop. How can I use the same user profile for
these 2 accounts? I don't want to copy my profile from
the domain account to the local user account since the
bookmarks and stuff under "My Documents" change
frequently. I just want to able to update and use my
bookmarks no matter I login as a domain user or local
user. Is that possible?

Thanks for your help.

Billy
..

The lnl response is completely right.

However, you can also make the laptop a workgroup
computer, sharing the same workgroup name as your
domain. Log into the laptop using a username and
password that exactly matches the domain username and
password. You will have access to all domain resources
that you would have had without having to log into the
domain and getting the "Using a local cache..." message.

Drawbacks: Limitations of Workstation software means you
can only provide up to 10 concurrent connections to your
machine for domain users. Not normally a problem in this
situation. The limitation was provided by microsoft to
stop people buying the WS software instead of server OS
for small networks.

Also, the profile is stored on your workstation and not
replicated by roaming profiles or folder redirection and
stored in duplicate on the server. You can get around
this by mapping profiles to a network drive, and making
that drive available using offline folders.