Slow XP logoff!

[flash99]

I am running Tiger Server 10.4.4 with both Windows and Mac clients, the XP logoffs take abnormally long and the hard drive seems to be grinding away on something from 2 to 5 minutes. The Windows clients don’t even have home dirs to write to. Any one have any idea’s?

[flash99]

To answer my own question…

What was taking so long for the XP machines to logoff was, the XP machines writing their profile to the server even though I had specifically not given them a home dir… I am under the impression that if you don’t set the home dir in workgroup manager then there shouldn’t be any profile replication with the server, I might be wrong though.

To fix this I had to log onto each PC workstation as admin and run pgedit.msc, then go to

Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Admistrative Templates > System > User Profiles

And disable “Do not check for user ownership of Roaming Profile Folders”

This cleared up the problem, logoff’s are instant now!

If some one thinks there is a better way of doing this or sees a glaring mistake or problem, let me know, I’m always interested in other peoples suggestions.

[jurvis]

for anyone trying to use this tip, note the typo and run gpedit.msc .

[Flash]

You’re not alone, I had that problem, fixed it the same way. Apple’s implementation of NT Server seemingly has “roaming profiles” enabled by default.

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