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ADMT 3 Local User Profile Migration Issue - Workaround
I fill the textboxes with "root" and the "rootpass", and in the samba.log file of the server (if the debug level is 2 or higher), it appears: "authentication for user [root] -> [root] -> [root] succeeded". After this, the machine (enano$) is properly created (if doesn't exist) in the Ldap schema (a new entry called

New accounts unable to login
To copy the profiles across, I had to login to the domain as the new user, logout of the workstation, login to the workstation as admin, copy the profile from local You can even copy a default profiles to C:\documents&Settings\Default User and that will make every new user logon with this profile. good luck !

Copying profiles?
Logon as UserName.Domain at least once so the profile is created. 2.) Then while logged on as local administrator Control Panel|System|User Profiles, My question: Is there a way to take the old login/profile and associate it with the new login name so each of the users will have their familar desktops/programs?

ConnectComputer Still not working
Then logoff from this user and login as Administrator. Then copy over the ntuser.dat from the user you first created to the Default User profile and then whenever a new user logs in, they will have these settings as their default. You can even put things on the desktop, my docs, etc. to be copied over.

Windows 2000 pro doesn't join a domain with Samba+Ldap ...
You can check the subfolders under your user profile to find out the size of each folder using Windows Explorer. That is why I was surprised when I logged onto the new user profile, and it was not the same as my built-in Administrator account. I even did it again after it didn't work the first time.

login script not working right
Otherwise, everything else restored very nicely during each of the previous restores that we done on Exchange Server in SBS2000. "Joe Letter" wrote: That is When you login to a computer on a different domain, even if you use the same user name, you get a brand new profile created -- you lose all your settings.

Win2K Pro update problem with User profile, now User ...
Is there a way to prevent a new profile to be created each time a different user logs in, Not exactly. To log in there needs to be a profile, through use of roaming profiles and clean up of the local copies. is there a way to make it so that each time a new user logs in they login as guest instead of the

moving clients from 2k to 2k3
The question then becomes: how does one trigger wp to recreate these paths in the requestry on first start for a new user of the machine. NT creates a new profile for such users when they first logon to the machine. For registry settings with paths, we need to have wp know to look for things in the current user's

Adding Outlook 98 Profiles
I have upgraded to AOE 1.0b and have created a valid user profile. I get the message dialog box "Failed to download http://fdl.msn.com/zone/DataFiles3/master.da_" I am using IE4.01 and am trying to play the game through a proxy server. Again, I can create a new user login/sign up, have downloaded and installed 1.0b

User Profiles
The problem I’m having now is that every time the same user logs-in, a new temp profile is created in the "c:\documents and settings" folder. SepagoPROFILE and RTO Software's streaming profiles are other products. Login Consultants offers a free hybrid profile solution called Flex Profile Kit,

Unable to Load User Profile
I won't have an opportunity until this evening to review the System User Profile Settings with him. To be sure that we understand each other: 1. The desired data are in the original profile, User, under Documents and Settings. *** Yes. 2. The new corresponding (and empty) profile that Win2K Pro created is User.

User settings revereted to default
-----Original Message----- Hi- I created a shared default profile that I logged into and modified the desktop, etc. Then, per the Admin. Now, at this point, I can login to the new user's account and it works fine; it looks exactly like the default account. When I need to make a change to the desktop,

Multiple users and accounts
2. click "Add new user." 3. type in the profile name you want, click "Next." 4. password box comes up. Don't enter anything! Click "Next. 7. relaunch "Users" 8. select the profile name you just created, and choose "make a copy." 9. after typing a name, this time all you have to do is hit "Next" a bunch of times

Probs with mapping network drives using roaming profiles
All user accounts and settings were recreated with same settings as the old server. My concern is with this step. When you set up the new server was it machine goes down (roaming profiles). Some machines are allowing other users to login, others are not. How would I set that up so that all PC's can be accessed?

Desktop Shortcuts dissapear after Policy
Red Hat, by default, makes each new user a member of its own primary group that shares the name of the user. I had been creating all of my user accounts with a The home directory is assigned by the following command in smb.conf: logon home = \\%G\%U\.profile The %G is expanded to the primary group of the user,

Profile Nightmare
The second thing I would check is that a folder is being created for the user in \winnt\profiles\%username%. And that all of the contents of \winnt\profiles\Default If the user has all other valuenames, but not an SID valuename, Windows NT will continually genrate a new folder for the user each time they logon.

Moving Profiles
I then created a shortcut to it, and placed that in the All Users start menu folder. It worked like a charm and still does, despite multiple profiles and frequent Creating a new opener file, as previously defined, using the non admin login works. If this is the solution then it means that each user on each

Logon Scripts
So far I have been thinking about doing the following: 1) Create a second administrator account on each machine 2) Login as the second administrator and copy the "administrator" profile to another folder, renamed for the new user's username (eg "Documents and Settings\Administrator" -> "Documents and

Urgent help needed
I basically have it working now and my user ID can still login successfully. So can the two test users I have setup that use a mandatory roaming profile which was created by copying the Template user's profile out via Control Panel | System | User Profiles. The server is set up to delete roaming caches so the test

namespace.CurrentUser - exactly where does this come from
are still all there on each and every client machine. The "cheapest" (ie free) way to restore a previous desktop to the new profile is simply to drill down When you login to a computer on a different domain, even if you use the same user name, you get a brand new profile created -- you lose all your settings.