I recently got hired on as an Administrator for a small/medium High School. The high school has over 200 computers for it's students, with most running NT 4, some Win2K and are just now starting to implement WinXP.

Currently, the school has 2 NT4 Servers, and the network is utilizing Roaming Profiles. The problem is about every hour all 200+ computers are being logged out, then in with different students. This slows the network down to a crawl. It can take the Workstations upto 10 minutes to log the students in, and some workstations time out and just create a local profile.

Any suggestions on getting away from roaming profiles, without having to maintain local profiles for all the student's on each machine.

I was considering just allowing the machines to create local profiles whenever a student logs in, then have the login script always delete the previous student's profiles. I don't know if this is the way to do it or not.

Anyone have to deal with a similar situation ?

Thanks for any info.