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Win2k Profile Problem username.domain

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by bettslp

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I have a Win2k machine that creates a profile with the username.domain extension instead of authenticating and logging in with the profile already on the machine. Can someone please provide insight into this?

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by adeal

Are you talking about a local profile, or an already created domain profile?

The profile for the local machine can only be used for logging in locally, not to the domain.

by robfla

yycq99 is right. The first profile created for a user will be their username, whether logged on to a domain or locally. If they log on with a same name account in a different domain win2k will create a user.domain2 profile because it's a differentSID. Just to be a little more annoying, that user will have to log off and another user with local admin rights will have to log on to copy the old profile to the new one.

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