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I'm having the some issues with roaming profiles not synching to the server. I believe I have the permissions correct. One thing is I have to have the user as the owner in order for the local computer to find the profile folder (It give me a message about not finding the profile folder). What are the correct permissions and or configurations to have so that this process is flawless.

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by tmalo627

The user has to have full control of the share where their profile is located. Remeber there are two places to configure those permissions: in the Sharing tab and the Security tab.

If the error message you are getting is regarding finding the profile folder, you may want to check for connectivity between the client computers and the file server where the profiles are located. See if you can ping the IP address and if you can connect to the share by typing its UNC from the Run command.

Hope this helps.

by rob miners

You could run XCACLs and give the Administrator and Users Full control of their Profiles Folder.

This is how I change Permissions with SBS 2003. Set it up something like this and run userperm.bat

The Administrator and the User has full control over the Folder with 2 files.

chperm.bat

echo y| xcacls %LOGONSERVER%\profiles$\%1 /T /G "Administrators":F %1:F

UserPerm.bat
call c:\chperm.bat user1
call c:\chperm.bat user2
call c:\chperm.bat user3

I normally copy these files to the root of the Server.Just add the Users to UserPerm.bat as per example.

Some links that will explain Permissions and a couple of ways to Automate the Process.

Access Control: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/c57b42dc-421a-4f2c-b259-107a8ac019081033.mspx?mfr=true

HOW TO: Use Xcacls.exe to modify NTFS permissions: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318754

How to Use CACLS.EXE in a Batch File: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/135268/

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