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Cannot create profile directory

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by mcarrara

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I HAVE A WIN NT 4.0 DOMAIN

We are setting up our first Win2k lab and I have a problem. We have a couple of hundred users ( we are a school district) and most, but not all, are having problems logging in with a Win2k machine. They have NO problems from our Win98 computers.
They log in to the domain with a valid username and password but we get the following errors:

Windows cannot create a profile directory .pds using local profile Detail - Access denied

then the next error message:
Cannot locate local profile will use temporary profile.

All users are identical, same groups, same login script and none have roaming profiles. But some get in and most have the same errors.

What's up?

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by chouf

What I could see is a permission problem on the local HDD of your W2K machines. As you might know, Win98 only support FAT and FAT32 file system while W2K support NTFS as well the two others.
NTFS file system enables you to set permissions to files and/or folders as well as setting disk quota, etc ...
What I'd check first is that if users have enough permissions on the C:\Documents and Settings folder. Check as well what are the permissions on the C:\ drive (root) and if the C:\Documents and settings do inherit or not permissions from its parent folder. Make the modification as needed.
The second thing I'd check is the disk space on the local HDD.
I just found this : http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/facilities/software/networkClient/admin_81.shtml check 1st lien of the table

by mcarrara

I have checked all the permissions and they are correct. I think I have isolated the problem. For some reason Windows thinks we have a terminal server. There is a button on user manager to set terminal server user settings. This is pretty wierd.

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