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by msillers 1 view

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I have a user who runs both NT and W95. When he uses NT, during logout, his files in the home directory are overwritten by files a month old. If the files are moved, the old files appear in the origional location. The server and workstation are bothNT 4 with SP4

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by cuziyq

I'm assuming that this user has either 2 computers, or one computer that is partitioned. Either way, this sounds like one of the two environments is synchronizing the user's profile with the server (probably NT), and the other is not. Check the user's account in User Manager and make sure that roaming profiles are disabled (which 95/98 do not support). Also check to make sure there are no local policies in POLEDIT that are synchronizing the profiles. This should make it so that neither environment will attempt to sync the user's profile with the server.

If roaming profiles are desied, however, then you must create a local policy in BOTH environments so that the profile will never get out of sync when the user switches between them.

by msillers

I am at a loss as to why the profile would actually overwrite user files but apparantly this is what happened. When I moved the profile as an experiment, the old files were then copied to the new location, leaving the current files intact. Thanks for the tip.

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