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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsDavid Paul Dutcher, Scott Alan Lenharth, James Michael Rolette, Jr., Stanley Alan Smith, Courtney Joseph Spooner
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A user is authenticated at a client machine running a native operating system. Authentication may be effected from one or more non-native server domains including, without limitation, a Server Message Block (SMB) server domain, a DCE Cell, or some other non-Windows NT server domain. Following successful authentication, a user account is dynamically established or updated at the client by retrieving from the server user information and a set of "group" privileges associated with the authenticated user. A "user profile" is retrieved from the non-native server domain and used to establish at the client a user desktop and any preferences associated with the user.
A method of setting up a user desktop at a client running a native operating system using a user profile, the client normally configured against an account held at a server running the native operating system, comprising the steps of:
A method of setting up a user desktop at a Windows NT client using a user profile, comprising the steps of:
A computer program product in a computer-readable medium for setting up a user desktop at a client using a user profile, the client running a native operating system and normally configured against an account held at a server running the native operating system, comprising:
A computer connectable to a network, comprising:
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