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Fed up with Profiles..need serious help!

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by xpertdragon 1 view

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I have HAD IT WITH Profiles! I seem to be going in circles with setting up Windows 2000 profiles. Can anyone recommend a Non-Microsoft oriented Profile Know-It-All web site? with the works of FAQs and HOWtos and explanations why profiles are difficult within Windows 2000 Pro.

The Problems I have been having are setting up users on WIn 2000 that previously used Win9X or Win NT. I get all the usual "Profile not Found", "Roaming Profile Not Found" type messages. Every once in a while, I get lucky, and it seems that when the profile is "roaming', it acts fine. All PDCs and BDCs of this LAN are Windows NT 4.0 Server. Does this have something to do with it?

I can not simply log a established NT domain user into a newly created Windows 2000 machine without a lot of headaches. Please Help me if you can. Very much appreciated.

Paul M. Chavez

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by stoobydo

Noticed that your message was collecting dust. Try posting your message at virtualdr.com in the W2k forum. I use that forum as well as this one for help. Good luck!!!

by elkfeva

NT 4 server doesn't support roaming profile... I would use roaming unless all you DC's are 2000.
Second, I have found you are better off backing up the users data, then installing a fresh image of 2k pro. Profiles work great if your going from win2k pro to win 2k pro. Deadly if going from nt 4 to 2000 pro.

Just my imput.

by bohicam1

You might just have a slow network. I will get that message when my network is overloaded. I too have only NT4 PDC and BDC and I have never had a prob with my profiles...they are all roaming. My profiles folder is on a BDC and I recently took 3 win2k machines out of the box, my users connected and after the usual probs of having desktop features not being compatible between the 2 OS's, it will be smooth sailing after that. I know this doesn't help your situation but I'm just letting you know that it does work.
Have you tried to delete their original NT4 profile and have the user establish a new one?
For sure, that should work.
Good luck!

Mike

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