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Renaming NT user accounts

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by cray 2 views

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We are standardizing our usernames which requires us to rename each user's account in the user manager for domains. The Win9x machines behave just fine, but when the NT user logs in with the new name their computer doesn't create a new profile folder and it refuses to let them access their mapped drives that they have access to. In the user profiles tab it shows their new name but in the winnt\profiles\user folder it still shows the old name and won't allow any changes to it. What is the best way to go about migrating the NT users to their new names without loosing their personal settings/applications?

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by terminator

Log on as admin and rename the old profile to the new profile , that should do the trick

Good luck

by cray

When I logon as an admin it still will not let me rename the profile folder.

by zinnix

Hello.

If you are working in domain model, and all
you NT machine login to the domain, it is simple:
in the pdc , open user manager for domain,
and rename the desired users.

BUT if you have local accounts on the nt
machines, you need tologin as admin to EACH NT machine,
and rename the users.
if you have 5 machines and 5 users defined in each machine,
you need to change 25 users ...

Good Luck.

by cray

Yes we renamed the accounts on the PDC,and there are no local accounts but after changing the accounts on the PDC, they can login but not access anything, and their profile folder will not let it be renamed or create a new one.

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