Folder redirection vs roaming vs ???

[whitetr6]

In a Windows 2003 environment with Vista clients, I have a few users who rotate among a few PCs. I'd like to implement either redirected folders or roaming profiles for them, but I'm trying to decide which. The key is I want the solution to only apply to those few users, and only those couple of PCs. In other words, if they log on to some other machine in the domain, I do not want the profile to be replicated there. Thanks for any suggestions on the best way to approach this.

[pago]

You could use both: roaming for the profiles and redirection of e.g. "My Documents" for the home directories.
As the profile settigng are per AD user object and the redirection settings can be part of a filtered GPO you are able to
use that scenario for some specific users only.
But when using roaming profiles you will still have a local profile on each client the users log on to. That is a copy of the centrally stored profile which is used during the user's session.
It is only replicated during logon/logoff, thus you have only network traffic (and performance issue) during logon/logoff.
Roaming profiles have definately some advantages, but also disadvantages and pitfalls, so examine that first.
Maybe that helps:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Profile-Folder-Redirection-Windows-Server-2003.html

Redirecting parts of the profile is an additionally option (works for both: local and roaming profiles).
This reduces time and traffic during logon/logoff but in return adds it during the user's session because read/write actions are no longer local.

So there is no one and only solution - it depends on many criterias.
Hope that helped anyway...

Patrick