Participating In Domains; About Domain User Profile - NEC Express5800 Series User Manual

Chapter 5 Administrative Utilities and Settings
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Participating in Domains

You can participate in domains by joining the thin client to a domain or by using roaming profiles.
Participating in Domains
The administrator can join the thin client to the domain in the Change Computer Name dialog box (Start Button Right
Click Menu > System > Change Settings > Computer Name tab Change).
6.1

About Domain User Profile

When joining the thin client to a domain, disable the Unified Writer Filter so that the domain information can be
permanently stored on the thin client. The Unified Writer Filter should remain disabled through the next boot as
information is written to the thin client on the boot after joining the domain. This is especially important when joining an
Active Directory domain. For details about disabling and enabling the Unified Writer Filter, see Chapter 4, "2.9 Configuring
UWF (Unified Write Filter)". If you did not sign-in with the domain account and enabled the UWF, the profile of the domain
account is created at every sign-in. To avoid this, sign in with the domain account before enabling the UWF.
If you activate UWF without signing in with domain account after joining US320f to the domain, the domain user profile
created after starting US320f next time and Initial sign-in with UWF enabled are lost by shutting down or restarting US
320f. Therefore, it is important to note that a new domain user profile will be created each time US320d is restarted.
On the other hand, even if you first sign-in with UWF disabled and create a domain user profile, after UWF activation, any
changes made to the domain user profile will be lost due to US320f shutdown and reboot. Note that the domain cache
maintained in US320f remains as it was created when UWF is invalidated, and application of client settings by domain
group policy is also lost due to shutdown and restart of US320f.
Also, it is not realistic to create and maintain profiles of all domain users using US320f with UWF invalid status.
For the domain user profile, it is necessary to set it appropriately beforehand with sufficient preliminary verification in
consideration of the system environment to be used and the influence on the application, depending on the specification
specific to the thin client as mentioned above.
Important US320f can not participate in domain from Settings > Account > Access work or school > Connect.
This is a specification limitation of US320f. To participate in the domain of US320f, use the system
property dialog.
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