Network / ' Roaming' Profile Question

[darth_stinky]

I've got a bit of a niggly question (and its quite technical). I'm new to our office and hence want to look good when my boss returns from his holiday :)

I'm setting up 15 XP desktop field pc's (standalone machine/static ip with vpn network access). Field users access all their email/calander/appointments via Ms Outlook 2002 and our Exchange 5.5 Server. Our network is a mainly Win2k S,AS/NT4 environment.

Basically they log on each morning & evening to synchronise their email & appointments.

THATS WORKS FINE, this is the clincher......

I need to setup 2 machines on-site (i.e. Here) that ALL 15 Field users can come in access when they are working on-site (with all their email/appointment data). I have a 'configuration template' for setting up the users desktop profiles and was simply going to simply create each users profile on the 'roaming'/on-site pc's. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to a better way of doing this, or is my way ok, etc.....

Many thanks for taking time to read this,

Darth_Stinky :)

[classicsoftware]

I think you are on the right track. There may a shortcut, but I don't know what it would be.

They have to logon to the server in some way so they get the appropriate mail files. The only way that works is to set up individual user accounts on the client machine.