Hi

I'm running a Windows XP PC PRO SP2 via VPN (ADLS) using SBS 2003
server.

The VPN is working fine, I logon using the dial up VPN connection" from
the initial login screen and everything works fine.

However I cannot download my roaming profile (our network has this as
standard). Note I have disabled slow link detection in group policy.

Does anybody have any ideas on how I can get roaming profiles to work
on a VPN connection?

Many thanks

Alex

postings wrote:
> I'm running a Windows XP PC PRO SP2 via VPN (ADLS) using SBS 2003
> server.
>
> The VPN is working fine, I logon using the dial up VPN connection"
> from the initial login screen and everything works fine.
>
> However I cannot download my roaming profile (our network has this as
> standard). Note I have disabled slow link detection in group policy.
>
> Does anybody have any ideas on how I can get roaming profiles to work
> on a VPN connection?

Unless you have eliminated many things from the roaming profile - I cannot
see that you would want to.

Favorites, cookies, desktop, My Documents, etc.. The amount of data a user
could have (or sheer number of files) would cause someone with normal
DSL/Cable connections to be connected for LONG periods of time before they
could even use their computer. Map drives - allow the users to access their
data this way.

What error are you getting or does it just not download the profile? I can
see why it wouldn't if you have not slimmed down the roaming profiles...

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Hi Shenan

Thanks for your reply Shenan.

Yes I am aware of the speed implications when logging on with roaming
profiles.

On VPN it just uses a profile on the local computer. There are no error
messages. Everything behaves as it should, I just can't download my
roaming profile when using a VPN remote machine.

My profile will download fine on any machine on our local network (not
using VPN technology of course).

Cheers

Alex

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> postings wrote:
> > I'm running a Windows XP PC PRO SP2 via VPN (ADLS) using SBS 2003
> > server.
> >
> > The VPN is working fine, I logon using the dial up VPN connection"
> > from the initial login screen and everything works fine.
> >
> > However I cannot download my roaming profile (our network has this as
> > standard). Note I have disabled slow link detection in group policy.
> >
> > Does anybody have any ideas on how I can get roaming profiles to work
> > on a VPN connection?
>
> Unless you have eliminated many things from the roaming profile - I cannot
> see that you would want to.
>
> Favorites, cookies, desktop, My Documents, etc.. The amount of data a user
> could have (or sheer number of files) would cause someone with normal
> DSL/Cable connections to be connected for LONG periods of time before they
> could even use their computer. Map drives - allow the users to access their
> data this way.
>
> What error are you getting or does it just not download the profile? I can
> see why it wouldn't if you have not slimmed down the roaming profiles...
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html