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Creating a New Mandatory User Profile
for Windows 95
If you have Windows 95 users in your domain, you can create new mandatory
user profiles.
To create a mandatory user profile for a Windows 95 user:
1. On the client Windows 95-based computer, start Control Panel, and select
Passwords.
2. From the User Profiles property page, enable the option that allows users
to have individual profiles, and set the Primary Network Logon to Client
for Microsoft Networks.
3. Reboot the client machine.
4. Use User Manager for Domains to create the user account (if it does not
already exist). For the user’s home directory, specify the location where
the User Profile will be stored. An example would be:
This automatically creates a folder with the user name. If a dialog is dis-
played stating that the operation failed, create the folder manually before
continuing.
5. Copy the Template Profile that you are using for mandatory profiles to the
user’s home directory:
• From the Windows 95-based machine hosting the mandatory, copy
the complete contents of the local Profile folder to the folder created
previously. This writes the profile to the destination, including the
folder trees and the User.xxx file originally included with the profile.
• If you have not already done so, rename the User.dat file to
User.man.
At logon, the user will download the mandatory profile, cache it, and no
changes will be written back to the server at log off.
NOTES:
• The profile does not need to be stored one directory below the \\server\share. The profile can be
nested several directories below, if desired.
• Alternatively, a new profile can be made mandatory by the user logging on, logging off, and the
administrator changing the User.dat file to User.man.
Maintaining User Profiles with Control Panel
System Properties
In Windows NT 4.0, much of the functionality provided by individual tools in
Windows NT 3.5x has been consolidated in the Control Panel System Proper-
ties application. And System Properties, when used in conjunction with the