An enduser of mine has a desktop PC that he has used for several months and recently we got him a new laptop for use for his mobile needs. I setup a roaming profile for him in Server 2003 R2 so he could use both units and keep his profile up to date with any changes he makes while on the road. What i found was that his desktop PC would not copy his profile to the server after several reboots and relogs. I finally forced it over using the “copy to” function and it worked fine(or so I thought). At this point I logged him off and then moved to the laptop and logged him on to it for the first time. The profile came over to the laptop just as it should.
Now I tested the roaming profile for profile replication from the 2 PC’s to the server copy and vice versa.
Laptop:
I made changes to the laptop desktop by adding a file to it and it showed up on the server copy of the profile when I logged off.
Desktop PC:
When I logged onto it, it downloaded the changes I made earlier while logged on the laptop, but when I tested it for upload funtion by making a change to the desktop, it would not upload a change over to the server. I tried rebooting and relogging several times and it just didn’t want to do it.
Now I checked permissions on the profile folders/files to make sure there wassn’t an issue there. The permissions were all set for full control for the user, the system, the domain admin, and the domain admins group.
At his point I made a test acct and tried the same thing and everything worked on both the laptop and the Desktop Pc as it should.
Any ideas what might be causing the Desktop Pc to not want to upload to the profile on the server as it should?