Trying to create a roaming profile for a user on Windows XP. He currently has a local profile.
so, here’s what I did.
– Create a profile share (everyone – full access)
– Copied the user’s profile to it, and gave him full access to it, as well as made him the owner.
– Specified the UNC path in AD.
– Renamed his local profile to joe.old as a backup.
– When I log in to the domain as the user, I get a new profile created. When I check the user profiles under My Computer > Properties > Advanced, I don’t see his profile anymore. There is only local admin and that’s it.
– I then logged in as admin and deleted his new profile, and renamed the .old back to the standard.
– I then check the user profiles screen again, and this time it showed his profile again, configured as roaming….
This doesn’t make sense to me, because if the profile was to be killed right now and he’d log into the domain, he wouldn’t get his profile at all.
just an FYI, I did this for another user who’s set up exactly the same way and it worked with no problems.
I’ve never seen this issue where you renamed the user folder locally, and it no longer lists the profile under My Computer > Properties > Advanced > User Profiles.
If I just create a new profile for him, I could copy over his .PST and favourties and My Documents, however, his application settings will be lost.
Any ideas?