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by travisr

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Home network running Windows2000 server and 2000 Professional. On the server I created a share to store the roaming profile. On the Professional I mapped to the share through Map Network Drive and select reconnect at logon. When I logon to the domain from the Professional pc I get an error stating that it could not find the roaming profile because there was no connection, a cached local profile will be used instead. Is this occuring because I don't have a login script mapping to the share on the server where the profile is stored?
Thanks for the help!

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by ivision

You don't need to map the network drive in which the profile resides. In "Active Directory Users and Computers" check out the users' properties - you supply the path in which the profiles will reside, as well as the users' home directory.

by travisr

Very good sir. You pointed me in the right direction. I examined the path for the profile that I had entered. I entered "D:\profile\user". Once I entered the UNC it worked fine.
Thank you for your response

by matt

I find that if you just use a UNC it works much better than a mapped drive. Make sure that you have rights on the share and folder set to full access for everyone. W2K will set the rights on the folder after it creates the folder and stores the profile after the first logout.

by travisr

Your answer is correct. The first answer pointed me in the right direction, but didn't point out to use the UNC.
Thank you for your response

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