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Local user profiles to win2000 server

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I have been handed a quest to move 95/98/XP/2000 users local workstation profiles to a new 2000 server that we just implimented for the users to log into. I need to know the best most efficient way to handle this. This may seem very easy to you, butI have most of my experience in Novell. I have a clue, but I want to make sure first, before messing around with it.

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by gooseneck

Go to the user created and add the profile path. Basically you tell it where to store the profile..
You can go to Active Dictory users and computers Right click the user and properties. There is a tab called profiles. Click on that and type:
\\computername\sharename\%username%

by gigelul

Hi,
I assume that you don't have a Windows domain controller. Also I don't have a Win2000 server but the concepts its the same like in WinNT.
First you must create users accounts on this new server.
At this point you have two choices:
-local profiles
or
-roaming profiles
Local profiles:
In User Manager for domain (where you created the accounts) you must set "use local profile". All is done, users will be authenticate by server and will use existing local profiles.
Roaming profiles:
I'm not sure if you can transform local profiles in roaming profiles (you can try: after you create an user account, logon with this user account on a workstation, logoff (roaming profile will be saved on server), logon with domain admin account and copy the old local user profile over stored roaming profile on server, logon again with user account and see if you receive the wanted profile. If not, users must customize again their profiles.)
Local and roaming profiles are stored in %systemroot%/Profiles/%UserName%.
My opinion is that roaming profiles is the best solution.

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