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Roaming Profiles in Win2K

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by cgilless 1 view

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I have been attempting to setup roaming profiles on a Win2k domain for Win2k desktop users. I have created the shared folder on the server, with permissions, etc. However when I attempt to log on to the desktop as that user, I get an error messagethat the system cannot create the profile on \\servername\share\username.pds and will use a local profile, yada, yada. The detail is that the system cannot find the path specified. Nor can I copy a local profile to the server share because a localprofile is not created--a temp profile is created. Copying and renaming this also doesn't work. Any fixes out there for this really annoying issue? Thanks.

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by dagga

Try deleting the local profile and the profile on your server then logon again. Make sure the user has write access to the profiles dir.

Dagga

by stevef68

Have you already created the profile and copied it the server? Windows should not be trying to create a profile when you log on, it should only be trying to read a profile. Log on locally (to the workstation) as the user you are creating the profile for, set up the profile, log out, log back in as administrator, then copy the profile for that user to the server and give the user permission to use the profile. Also, make sure in the users property sheets on the server that the user is mapped to the profile by UNC path. I prefer to use \\servername\sharename\%username%

by newralguy

I recently tried to do this on my network as I have about 15 persons on 2nd shift that change seats each night. I received the same error.
I created the profiles folder on one of our servers and shared it,then created the user's folders. Copied the users folders to their respective drives, changed them in Active directory pointing their profile to \\server\profiles\(users login name). After I did this, it worked perfectly.

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