[THIN] Re: Shared userids/Default Printers
- From: "Bray, Donovan (ESC)" <BrayD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:31:35 -0700
Lots of strange things happen with shared accounts. My first foray into
terminal services was replacing an old lab of traditional machines, we did
this without thinking about it too much since we were migrating from a lab
that everybody logged in as "lab-a" it seemed natural to continue doing that
with the terminal servers.
We had odd problems like when a class was instructed to use Word and insert
clipart. The first user to manage to open up clipart ended up locking
everybody else out of it, because Word was locking one of the files in the
user's profile directory. We had many other problems that ended up going
away when we created workstation assigned accounts and used mandatory user
profiles such that every machine now had a specific login ie: "lab-a-22".
This turned out to be the best option until we began making user specific
accounts.
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From: Joe Shonk [mailto:joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 8:57 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Shared userids/Default Printers
Using Shared Account in TS/Citrix has always been and will always be a bad,
bad, bad idea... Try looking into using anonymous accounts as an
alternative.
Joe
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Robert K Coffman Jr - Info From Data Corporation
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 8:43 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Shared userids/Default Printers
Hello,
We are currently running NT4 TSE/MetaFrame XPe. When a user sharing an ID
logs into a server that already has that userid logged in, it overwrites the
default printer for the first user. As a result, we don't use shared ids.
The question I have is if we move to 2003/PS4, would this still occur?
Thanks.
- Bob Coffman
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