[Tfug] Roaming profiles question

[Rushd]

Hi,

Where I work we are having problems with roaming profiles. There are about 
15 workstations and 3 laptops. Everybody logs on to their own individual 
workstation/laptop, never on to anybody else's. The laptops are used by reps 
that need to go out in the field and input info. All the programs they need 
to use are on their laptops. It is just the files that they update. When 
they leave they take a copy of the files needed and nobody is supposed to 
access those files while the reps are gone. When the reps come back, they 
upload the changed files into the server and everybody then has permission 
to use the files. All the laptops have roaming profiles and it now takes 
them about 5-10 minutes to log on to the intranet. It is also creating 
problems on the server for the rest of us for some reason we don't know...

My question is - in this situation, where everybody has their own log in 
station, are roaming profiles needed? My understanding is that basically 
roaming profiles are used only if people log on to multiple workstations.

Rush
Tucson, AZ
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