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by shess57

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A user was running Windows NT 4.0. They were upgraded to W2K Pro. Now when the log on they receive the following error message every time

User Environment

Windows cannot create profile directory .pds. You will be logged on a local profile only.
Changes to the profile will not be propagated to the server. Contact your Network Administrator.

What causes this?

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by jschein

Hmmm Easy guess would be:

1. The location on the server where their profile is stored security does not have that user's name in it for access to modify his profile there.

2. It's a corrupt profile both locally and on the server.

3. Or his profile in the username on the domain is pointing to the wrong location.

1 of these 3...

by sgt_shultz

i am guessing it's a rights issue. maybe log in as admin and check/change rights on that folder...

by shadoglare2

Usually when I see this error it comes from whoever initially setting up the PC getting a little overzealous with write permissions and completely locking down the C: drive, including the Documents & Settings folder.

Double-check your permission settings on the D&S folder to make sure it's not so locked down that Win2K can't create a profile for the user...

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