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Thread ID: 9149	2001-05-09 22:58:00	win2k terminal services problems	Guest (0)	Press F1

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12400	2001-05-09 22:58:00	Hi, I have just set up two class rooms running Win2000 terminal clients and have had a couple of small issues arise. There are two separate (identical) servers (P3 933, 512Mb RAM), one serving 29 Windows 95 based clients the other serving 29 Windows 3.11 based clients. The clients log on to the servers using the same username (we need to have the same profile on all workstations because of the classroom situation). The problems I hit are as follows: 1. When the 3.11 clients log on they take quite a while to logon (much longer than the Win95 clients), and the client will not pass the username / password combination. You have to press enter (to clear the dialog box saying you could not be logged on) and then enter again to log on. Is there some way I can get them to automatically log on? I know I can specify for the connection on the server a user name and password for all clients (and this does work fine), but I still need to be able to log on to the server remotely as administrator for support purposes and doing this would lock me out. 2. If I get the 3.11 machines to log on at the same time (and the entire class naturally all log on together at the start of the class) the sessions seem to overlap each other. We use the environment variable 'clientname' to map the f: back to the clients floppy disk drive, and if there is a gap inbetween the clients logging on it works fine. But when they connect at the same time the variables get mixed up and the clients seem to wind up mapping to the wrong floppy drive. It isn't a name resolution issue, they simply just get the wrong client name entered into the clientname variable. (I realise I could solve this using different logon names, but there are issues at the school which dont permitt us to do this without major hassles). Any thoughts on how I either fix this, or of another way to map to the floppy (without purchasing citrix, which is beyond the budget). 3. With the clients all using the same profile, we are hitting two significant problems in Office 2000 (which is the only app they run). One is the clip art gallery, it will only let one user access it at a time, any other people get a message 'the file artgal50.mmc is in use by another application'. The other problem is with the word templates, which also only let one user in at a time, giving the message that the file is in use by another user. I have asked the office 2000 newsgroup for help, but their knowledge is for standalone machines and I cannot get the fixes they supplied to work on the Terminal services. Does anyone have any suggestions regarding this? I dont mind mapping a drive letter back to the clients hard disk drive and storing the gallery file or the templates there, but I do not know how to specify where the files are stored. I'm sure someone must have struck these problems in the past, your help is very much appreciated.	Guest (0)
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