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I've been trying at this for about 30 minutes looking for a solution. I've restarted my laptop about 2 times but the "solutions" I found on google were very complicated and it seemed like not a lot of people knew about this. That's when I remember that LTT has a forum, so I joined it like a couple of minutes ago asking for your technological help :D also the name sharon is just my aunt that wanted this laptop borrowed for covid, so I took it to a store to have it wiped and name change so that I can give it to her but she doesnt need it anymore D:

So I'm visiting NYC tomorrow and I made myself the question: "How the f*ck am I going to use internet on my phone without having to do the hunt for open wifi hotspots". I've been searching for some weekly cheap ones (since I'm only staying for a week) but the only ones I found were monthly and quite expensive, I'm searching for an around 10-15Gb plan, I don't really care much about high speeds nor calls since whatsapp ones are over internet. (Also, I'm visiting from Spain) Thanks beforehand

ok so i have a rather unique situation, the last few months my wife and i have just been buying an xfinity wifi pass for our internet on our home pc, because well xfinity screwed us over by not installing our service then still billed us so until i pay money i dont owe them i can no longer get actual xfinity service. But my best friend lives right next door(apartment building) and my pc is a foot away from the wall his wireless router is next to, so I have just been paying the $55 a month for 20Mbps internet on my pc. And for the most part it meets every requirement i have for the moment so i dont mind doing it that way. BUT as of 2 weeks ago my wireless adapter for whatever reason keeps roaming to the other xfinity hotspots, one of which is broken & will not assign an IP address, the other of which crawls at 2Mbps which is definitely not worth $55. I turned my roaming aggressiveness down on my driver to 1, even tried making it connect only to 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands separately to see if i can keep it from doing it but it just wont stop roaming to other connections with the same name 'xfinitywifi'. Does anyone know of a way or some software i can download where i can specify which xfinitywifi hotspot i connect to and keep it from roaming to other ones that are farther away for no reason? any help would be greatly appreciated because Xfinity has already told me they cant do anything about it. I'm ready to rip my hair out because now ive paid $55 this month for internet that basically is non-functional 99% of the time. Again thanks for even reading this even if you cant help, i do appreciate it. :)

Hey guys, I'm a Canadian studying in England and my current mobile plan in the UK is with EE. It includes unlimited talk/text and 22GB of data, but most importantly it also comes with free roaming in the EU/EFTA states, as well as Canada, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand. Since I'll be back in Canada for the summer and mobile plan prices are atrociously high--not to mention I'll have to be paying my UK plan anyways due to the 1 year contract--I was wondering if there was a good VOIP application I could use while in Canada instead of getting another SIM (I don't care if it's paid). I'm looking for something that offers me a Canadian phone line that includes RELIABLE (key word) voice and texting since I'll have enough data to sustain both while roaming. I have an iPhone by the way. Thanks in advance!

Hey all I think this is the right place to put this thread, but feel free to move if iv put it in the wrong place. If you know of Ubiquity's managed wifi, and zero handoff, allowing for roaming between access points without loosing connection. Alot of other WiFi controllers have similar ideas, cisco etc. The common factor is all the access points are controlled by a central controller which manages all the AP's Now my question I know this isnt the most optimal way of doing things, so please leave out the comments of "Dont use R-Pi's" or "Why not buy one of these..." Im doing this as a learning experiment and for a bit of fun. I know how to turn a raspberry pi into an access point, using a usb wifi and onboard ethernet, and how to set it so DHCP is managed by the network and not the R-PI But what im looking into now is a way to set a few pi's up and use them as a managed network with a central control pi managing the roaming, ssid's passwords etc. Iv tried to google it, but everything I find is talking about how to setup the Rpi as a wifi ap, or setting it up as a wifi repeater using two usb wifi adaptors. Which is not what im wanting. Any input or direction would be great. OR if you have no idea what im going on about, let me know and I can try re-explain myself. Thanks in advance

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37318538 This statement is fair enough but... I'm still waiting for this to happen. But I live in the Uk so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I've never gone on holiday for 3 months in a year abroad but it might have an impact on those who travel lots for business

Hey guys, I live in Windsor, Ontario Canada, but am going to be commuting to Michigan everyday for work. I remember being annoyed the last time I worked in the states because i couldn't text or use any data because it would cost so much. Now I have the following options and am wondering if anyone in a similar situation has already made this decision and weighed all the pros and cons... Background info (id like the plan details to stay largely the same, or get better...): $50 CAD/month +tax - Current Canada Only plan: Unlimited normal and Picture Texts+ 1500 minutes +unltd E+WE + 5GB of data Option 1- Get roaming package with current Carrier: Additional $80 CAD/month, so $130 CAD/month+tax - Unlimited US Roaming Minutes, Unlimited incoming and outgoing Texts, 1GB of US data (no word yet on speed) Option 2- Switch to US plan (T-Mobile) with international Roaming: $80 USD/month +Fee's maybe? - Unlimited talk, text, data (From what I've read canada data speeds would be 2G). - International calling may be $0.2 USD/min. There may be charges for texting from outside US (need to clarify) Option 3- Get 2nd US based plan with 2 phones or a dual sim phone: $60 USD/month plus $50 CAD/month - US Plan- Unltd talk, text, and 6GB of US Data -CDN Plan- Unlimited normal and Picture Texts+ 1500 minutes +unltd E+WE + 5GB of data So overall the cheapest plan would be option 2, but I spend my free time in Canada since it's where I live, and that's where I would prefer to have the faster speeds... If anyone has taken any of the above routes and has an opinion I am all ears. Thanks

I recently tried to change the location of my roaming folder from my SSD (120GB) to my 3TB HDD, When I did so The roaming folder appeard in both locations. The one on my second drive (HDD) appears when I re-install minecraft. The contents are only .minecraft and java. Question 1 - Can I keep both folders? Question 2 - Does one of the two need to be on the C: Drive. Question 3 - Is it fine to move the contents of the Roaming folder located on the C: drive to the one located on the D: Drive.

Hi guys, Before I start, if you don't know what to do, but know a different place I could ask for help with this, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know. To summarize my problem, I'm messing with Group Policy on my Domain. The Administrator account was set to roaming in my testing, but when I removed that Group Policy, it's still trying to be a roaming profile. I've disabled the Group Policies that affected it. Example: Roaming Profiles were stored at \\file-server\profiles\, but each time I log in as Admin, it says "couldn't find the network path '\\domain-controller\profiles\'" which confuses me. I checked the policies, both whether they were enabled or the folders were being redirected to the DC. They weren't. I have no idea why the profile location changed to the local computer, but it shouldn't have. Any help is appreciated in resetting it back to what it was, or setting it back to default (i.e. local profile).

A teenage girl was required to pay a hefty roaming bill (£3,800 to be exact) after using her cell phone in the states. [The carrier] Orange said they had numerous warning messages but the girl claimed to not have seen any. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Roaming-NYC-Orange-Bill-Casey-Snook,23484.html Just an interesting little find. What are your thoughts on this? (Nothing came up in the search as of date posted)

This Tuesday the UE parliament will vote on a proposal that will remove roaming charges. What this means is that you would be able to travel to any EU country and use your phone like normal, without any additional cost. Neelie Kroes describes roaming charges as a "cash cow" for telecoms, which I completely agree with. Sadly telecoms might raise the cost of domestic calls to make up for the lost profit. They expect this to cost the industry 7 billion euro by 2020, and apparently roaming charges is one of the most profitable sources of revenue for telecoms. Telecoms are also kind of threatening by saying that this could slow down the roll out of 4G services since they won't make as much profit if this passes. So basically, network operators like Three and Virgin Media are really pissed off because of this. Personally, I think they have been milking customers for far too long. Nobody should be allowed to charge what they do for a few MB of data. It's ridiculous. Good job EU, I hope it gets approved and telecoms have to suck it up. It will go into effect in December 2015 if it gets approved. Source: The Guardian

Hi guys, just upgraded to server 2012 and having a slight issue with setting the permissions on roaming user profiles. Is this supposed to be done different than in server 2008/2003? (eg. GPO) because I've tried to to set the permissions on the users' folders without and luck. Ive gotten it as far as it creates the folder for the user but administrators do not have access. below is the batch file i used to run to enable this: icacls C:\UserProfiles /grant Everyone:(NP)(AD,RD,RA,X) icacls C:\UserProfiles /grant "Domain Admins":(OI)(CI)F icacls C:\UserProfiles /grant System:(OI)(CI)F icacls C:\UserProfiles /grant "CREATOR OWNER":(OI)(CI)F icacls C:\UserProfiles /remove administrators

Hi guys, So, we have a domain controller at work, and we want to implement Roaming Profiles. When we go into the Users and Computer Active Directory on the Primary DC, every users' profile folder is directed towards "\\FileServer3\Profiles\%username%". However, once, some time ago, it was set to "\\FileServer1\Profiles\%username%". This was when FileServer1 was our primary FileServer. It's been decommissioned since then, and now FileServer3 is our primary FileServer, but when we try to log into the Domain as a Domain User on any computer, it says it can't find our profile folders which it says are supposed to be located at "\\FileServer1\Profiles\%username%". In other words, when we edit the path to the profile folder in the Primary DC, it doesn't update on the machines from FileServer1 to FileServer3. We've tried leaving the Domain and coming back to it, but it still doesn't update. Anyone have any idea why this is? Thanks, Vitalius.

Hi guys, My FreeNAS system is acting as a Domain Controller (treat it like a normal Windows 2008 R2 DC). My main rig (Windows 8.1 Update 1) was set up as part of the domain. [situation at this point: DC is up, PC is part of Domain] I rebuilt the FreeNAS system setup from scratch after switching a lot of hardware around (CPU, Motherboard & RAM) so that the plugins would work correctly (they were still looking for the old NIC). [situation at this point: DC is down, PC is still part of the Domain but without a DC] I re-added my PC to the domain and everything worked fine. I logged in with my same user/pass and the PC logged me into my correct profile. [situation at this point: DC is up, PC is part of Domain] After reinstalling my plugins, they were still having issues, so I did it again, except this time I moved all my data to another PC and wiped everything on the FreeNAS machine. [situation at this point: DC is down, PC is still part of the Domain but without a DC] Then after reinstalling FreeNAS, and configuring it, I re-added my PC to the Domain again, but this time, it didn't let me log in with my correct profile and instead made a new one. In the Users folder, there's my local profile [user], my old domain profile [user.Domain] and now my newly made profile [user.Domain.000]. I don't want the .000 one. I want it to log me into my original one. [situation at this point: DC is up, PC is part of Domain] The username/password didn't change. The domain name didn't change. The PC and FreeNAS' system names did not change. And I have no idea why it worked the first time I did this and not the second. I could just move the stuff from my old to my new profile since it's still there, but it's not just files, but preferences as well (i.e. task bar pins, start menu pins, background settings, etc) and I'm not sure how the Domain will handle me doing that. If anyone knows why I could sign in correctly the first time and not the second, I'd love to know as that would probably tell me what my problem is, thanks.

So I found this new croudsfunding (not kickstarter apparently) project that promises to offer reasonable rates when roaming just by applying a sticker on your sim card. The rates are not really that great and they don't appear to offer prepaid bundle plans but it definitely looks better than simple roaming, so we have to wait and see. Project page: http://www.knowroaming.com/ I guess there is quite some movement in the roaming scene after T-mobile and the plan to abolish roaming charges in the EU.

Hi guys, Don't feel you need to answer all the questions. Any question you can help me with or advice you can give would be much appreciated. My workplace is planning on moving our employees over to Roaming Profiles at some point (where the profiles are on server and all computers on the network use the profiles there to log in, so it doesn't matter what PC you are on, you have all your things), and tbh we haven't dealt much with it. My supervisor has been toying with it and researching how to set things up and get it working, and I've been doing the same recently. I discovered that by way of Group Policy Management, I can basically set it up to where, when someone logs on to a new computer, their profile will download and it will give them everything they need/want. Their files/folders (Documents, Music, Downloads, Desktop, etc) will all be living on the server. They will never connect to it by way of Wifi or remotely (WAN) and only by Ethernet (LAN), so speed isn't a concern. One thing to keep in mind: All of our users, except for 3, are on Windows 7 Professional. 2 of those 3 are on Windows XP (due to legacy reasons), and the last one is on an iMac (the boss loves his Macs). All of our Servers and Domain Controllers are Windows 2008 Server Enterprise edition. How do I link a Group Policy to a Group? I have created a Group Policy to test with that has 1 of everything I want to be using (Applications, files, folders, Data Base connections, things like that), but I have yet to figure out how to link that to a Group. I have a Group with a Testing account in it. I'm just missing the part where I connect the two to where, when I log into the account, all of the Group Policy settings will take effect and the Profile will be a Roaming one. What is the easiest way to turn a .exe into a .msi package? I am very wary of online file format conversion (or package conversion in this case) tools. Too much uncertainty in regards to virus', malware, spyware, etc. I'll be using the .msi packages, once I make them, to update their programs and give new ones as time goes on. For those with experience with this, what advice do you have in how I should set this up? Basically, at first I was making a single policy with everything anyone could ever use and was going to say "Ok, this user gets these things and the rest don't.", like that. Then I realized how much a pain in the butt that would be to manage as it took 5 clicks and some typing to give a single user one "thing" (file, folder, drive, application, wtv). Now do that 50 times with 50 items. LOL NO. So, then I realized it would be better to have one generic policy (that covered everything everyone would need), and multiple unique policies based on department. Then I could just attach 2 policies to a single group, if that is even possible. I assume it is. Not sure if there is a more efficient way. We have around 50 employees in total right now and are going to be expanding in the near future (20 more people roughly), so ease of use is paramount to give us time to do other things. Lastly, how can I set a user to be able to write to a file, but not delete it? Basically, we are going to be using an intranet communication software. It will keep a history of their logs (for obvious reasons), which I want to allow to update, but not be deleted, and a copy to be kept on the server which will update either when the file gets bigger (i.e. more messages have been sent), or a new one is made (i.e. they empty it, which is against our policies, and it starts to fill up again). I can't come up with an elegant way to do that. *sigh* I am very adamant about using Group Policy to make Roaming Profiles (as long as that is the best way). My current method of updating user's ... well ... anything is to set a task in their task scheduler to run a Batch File that lives on a network drive that everyone has access to. This is not optimal at all. It barely gets by. Very very ghetto. Group Policy is basically the GUI version of what I want (mass updates for everyone, a centralized point where anyone can go to fix things, etc), which is epic. Thanks for any help you can offer, Vitalius