NT initializes Buster's desktop using the local Default User profile. You can observe a user's various profiles in the System applet of the Control Panel. The Name column identifies the domain or workgroup the user belongs to. We will return to this utility several times in the remainder of this article. Incidentally, although any user can view profiles in the System applet, standard users see only their own profiles.
Administrators see all profiles stored on the local computer.
In Screen 3, notice that the Administrator and Buster have two profiles each. Because the Administrator account has not been assigned a network profile, this account uses the local profile. Users who have multiple profiles access the appropriate profile depending on whether they are logging on to the domain or to the local machine. The time stamp issue comes into play if you work on a computer that is isolated from the network, either because of a network outage or an intentional disconnection. Suppose that your NT notebook is connected to the network and you are conFigured to use a roaming profile.