We currently have Roaming Profiles on our NT 4 network, which I am trying to move away from. The users don’t typically use any other workstations but their own and these profiles are getting huge. What is the best way to move from roaming to local profiles?
I’m not all that familiar with roaming profiles, but this is what I have done so far (on a few users):
I deleted the profile path from their account in the server’s user manager. I copied the profile from the server to the local workstation (because so much of the user’s information/preferences were contained in these profiles and the users did not want to lose any of it). I added the user to the workstation (local users and groups) and entered the path to where the profile is located, locally (“C:\winnt\profile\ ‘…etc) – in the workstation’s user manager for that employee.
Here are a couple of the problems that I am experiencing: the profiles are reappearing on the server again (mind you, they’re now 0-200 kb in size as opposed to the 64-90 MB that they originally were), and I cannot delete the buggers (“access denied/sharing violation” type message appears). Permissions show that the Administrator does have full control. How do I delete these profiles from the serverand have it so they aren’t regenerated when the users log on again? Any other tips or things I should do/not do?
Thanks!
