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| Same problem here.. 2 different books with 2 different answers...
One is saying if server is down, then their workstation will default to cached profiles, then system default profile. The other book says that they will not be able to logon with server down.
4. You have a network with 3 NT servers and 1 Netware 3 server with 100 workstations. For security reasons, you have implemented mandatory roaming user profiles. Now, this server that holding the profiles went down. What happens when a new user logging in ?
1. Can logon and authenticated by another server.
2. No way this user can logon.
3. Can logon but this session's changes will be lost.
4. Can logon using cache credentials.
Help anyone?
Thx.
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| I've wondered this mysel, and as I write on Friday morning I'm hoping someone else (Freak? Anyone?) will reply with the "correct MS test" answer. In anycase I believe the answer is:
"If they have logged on before then they get their cached profile, if they haven't then they get the default profile on that station."
While I've seen that answer and the "mandatory = mandatory, so no logon if the server is unavailable" answer as well I base my answer on these facts:
1) How is a profile made mandatory? change NTUSER.DAT to NTUSER.MAN and put it in the profile dir. But, how does the server know it's mandatory? I think you just put the folder, not the file. That is: \\server\home\userbob\ not \\server\home\userbob\ntuser.man -- so if \\server\ was off line, there is no way for the 'network' to know it was mandatory.
2) If the user logged on and changed stuff, they wouldn't be saved back to the server (as it's off line) so it wouldn't matter, next time they logon and the server is up, bye-bye changes.
3) Default profiles must be good for something as they're saved on the ERD. Why save them if they're not used very often.
4) How good would it be to have users who couldn't logon because the profile server was down? We don't allow networks to fall to a standstill if the PDC dies, we have BDCs. I think it would be stupid to be denied access because of one downed server.
It's this last one that also has me wondering, perhaps it's one way on the test and another in 'real life' -- and also I know a few "management" things have changed between NT 3.51 and NT 4.0, this could have been different in 3.51 and people aren't changing.
Either way, I wouldn't mind if someone else who "knows the MS exam answer" would reply. THanks!
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| If they logged on before TO THAT MACHINE, then they will be able to log on with cached credentials. Any other situation, they cannot log on .
here, it says "a new user" in the question, therefore the answer is that they cannot log on at all...
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