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wingfoot

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If I do a \\PCName\c$ to a PC on our network I see my own temporary internet files in the user’s profile on his PC? Example: I go to: \\PCName\Documents_and_Settings\USER\Loacal Settings\Temporary Internet Files
I see the contents of my PC displayed in his path, only for the temp internet files, all other folders are correct. Any ideas?

Rick
 
No we are not. I can use the laptop on my desk and I see the correct files on the remote PC but if I use my desktop PC I see my temporary internet files when I navigate to his folder. I have never seen anything quite like this and I thought I may be having one of those monents, but I got three other IT support techs to watch and all were supprised.

Thanks,
Rick
 
Does it also happen to the other 3 techs?

This happened to me at my last job, but that was NT4 domain and 2000/XP clients, no roaming profiles.
 
Several files under profile directories are completely reprocessed as they are actually OLE objects. If you use a command session to do a directory of those locations, you will see the real underlying directory structure. This is occuring on your local machine as well.

The OLE redirection is initiated by the contents of the desktop.ini file in the target directory.

UICLSID={7BD29E00-76C1-11CF-9DD0-00A0C9034933}

This CSLID references the curent local users "Temporary Internet Files".

If HR requests a check of a users browsing activity and they haven't cleared their cache, I usually use robocopy to copy the directory structure to my local machine suppressing the copy of all desktop.ini files. That and using Mandiant Web historian to document the contents of all the DAT files as proof of the real download times of the files is usually more than enough dumped into easy to use Excel format.

At a command line, the "Temporary Internet Files" directory looks very different than in the GUI.

10/19/2006 04:57 PM <DIR> .
10/19/2006 04:57 PM <DIR> ..
10/19/2006 04:18 PM <DIR> AntiPhishing
11/14/2006 10:36 PM <DIR> Content.IE5
11/06/2006 07:55 PM <DIR> Content.MSO
12/19/2005 01:21 PM 67 desktop.ini
06/20/2006 03:31 PM <DIR> KYXRIR7W
08/23/2006 05:35 PM <DIR> Low
01/08/2006 04:05 PM <DIR> OLK10D
11/20/2006 07:24 PM <DIR> OLK33
11/14/2006 06:11 PM <DIR> Sqm
10/21/2006 01:45 PM <DIR> WebTempDir
 
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