Good day, everyone. I’m just admining a little machine shop network with one Win2K3 Enterprise Server and 8 WinXP Pro workstations (one of which is a laptop).
I’ve recently upgraded the domain to roaming profiles (C:\Shares\Intellimirror\Roaming Profiles\ [shared as PROFILES$]), and I redirected Application Data, Desktop & My Documents (C:\Shares\Intellimirror\Folder Redirection\ [shared as REDIRECTION$]). I have GPO set to wipe profiles from the local machines upon logoff. After a bit of turmoil at first, things are pretty much running smoothly now.
One thing that makes me a bit nervous, though, is that the user logoff process is still creating redirected folders under PROFILES$, such that I’ll simultaneously have say, a Desktop folder under both REDIRECTION% and PROFILES$ (for a given %username%). The redirected one is still the goods, whereas the profiles one is empty. In the case of My Documents, the bogus one in PROFILES% isn’t empty, but contains the default stuff — My Music, Sample Music, etc. Application Data really seems to contain a subset of the redirected folder, including files.
This whole affair stands in contrast to the first couple of post-implementation logons, when those three folders were automatically wiped from the roaming profiles.
I’m wondering if I’ve got an NTFS permission problem, where the logoff can’t write to REDIRECTION$ and falls back to PROFILES$ (though I’ve double and triple-checked this against the permissions listed at Technet, and I don’t get any warnings or errors to this effect).
Or I’m wondering if it has to do with “Default User.” I still haven’t created a domain-wide one to go in NETLOGON. Perhaps during logon these folders are getting picked up from the local default users?
Or maybe it’s just default behaviour and I’m being paranoid. I just don’t want to wind up with forked data and wind up having to do a merge.
Thanks for any input you more experienced sysadmins might have!
-Jim “JimmyJazz” Jones