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Losing roaming user profiles in NT4.0

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by goadsd

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On occasion, a user will "lose" their roaming profile. When they log onto the domain, all of their settings are gone. e.g. background, icons, etc. Their profile is still located locally and on the server but when they logon NT does not find it. The user recieves no error message and displays a bogus profile. If I remove the user as an administrator of the workstation their profile reappears but none of the applications they run from the server work. Usually results in a registry error. Adding the user back as an administrator of the workstation results in the bogus profile once again. The only solution we have found is to delete the user and then set them up again reinstalling all applications. There has to be an eaiser way.

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by shardy

Be sure that the user realises that if he/she is looged in at two places at one time,the last one logged off saves the profile.This can be especially ugly with link
tracking still enabled and shortcuts were created on a machine that is no longer on.Is someone sharing a logon account?

by chris hirst

I found this same problem with NT4 (SP3 - SP6a). It seems to be related to machine speed and disabling Write Behind Cacheing seems to have resolved it

by james_randy

If you are still tackling this problem, perhaps you should consider calling your local super-hero.

by schitzoid

when the c: drive is too full of crap to down load the the bloated profile, it uses the default (read blank) profiles, which over writes the original profile on the server when they logg off. clean up the c: drives, clean up the profiles, set up quota management, and when it happens again, disconnect the client from the lan before they log off so it doesn't write to the server.

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