Supporting Users Who Travel Between Computers

System Requirements for Traveling Users

To set up roaming user profiles for your traveling users, your server and client computers must have the following software installed.

Server requirements

• Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0 or Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

  – or –

  Novell NetWare version 3 or higher

  – or –

  Other third-party servers that support roaming user profiles

Note   The server must support long file names for user profiles to travel successfully.

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Client requirements

• Windows NT Workstation version 4.0 or Windows 2000 Professional

  – or –

  Windows 98 with user profiles turned on

  – or –

  Windows 95 including Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.01 with Service Pack 1 with the Active Desktop™ and user profiles turned on

Note   Roaming user profiles are platform-specific. Because of differences between the Windows registry and the Windows NT registry, users cannot travel between Windows 95/98 and Windows NT or Windows 2000.

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Other requirements

• Administrator or User privileges for all user and computer accounts. Accounts with Guest privileges do not travel.

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See also

For additional information about setting up roaming user profiles on your Windows NT network, see the Windows NT Server 4.0 Resource Kit.

For additional information about user profiles and your client operating system, see the product documentation for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT Workstation 4.0, or Windows 2000 Professional.