Hi, all...
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We have a longtime user logging into his regular Win2Kpro SP4 workstation.; domain server is Win2Kserver SP4. His login is FLast (First-initial Last-name). Our domain is written all-caps, as DOMAINNAME.
The user's regular credentials get him a "new-user" profile on the workstation (offering the standard tours/tutorials to the OS, requiring first-use configuration of MS-Office, etc).
Launching "Explorer" I see profiles on "C:\Documents and Settings\profilename"...
"flast.DOMAINNAME" is the newly-created one (that "f" as in first-initial, "last" as in last-name "dot" DOMAINNAME). Creation-date on the folder is this morning (just about when he logged in... imagine that!), and it has none of the user's customizations.
But right beside it is the another profile, "FLast" (no domain suffix), WITH the customizations the user has made...
Note the differences in capitalization; I'm not sure they are (or aren't) relevant, but "flast.DOMAINNAME" is the WRONG profile and "FLast" is the right one...
Logging into the computer, only a login to "DOMAINNAME" works; logging in as that user to "This Computer" fails.
Checking the profile on the server, I see neither explicitly listed.
Hints? Tips? Solutions? Derisive (but correct) pointers to the Right Answer... all willingly accepted.
- Steve
I'll be posting this on other relevant Tribes (apologies to those of you also subscribed to those Tribes!)
We have a longtime user logging into his regular Win2Kpro SP4 workstation.; domain server is Win2Kserver SP4. His login is FLast (First-initial Last-name). Our domain is written all-caps, as DOMAINNAME.
The user's regular credentials get him a "new-user" profile on the workstation (offering the standard tours/tutorials to the OS, requiring first-use configuration of MS-Office, etc).
Launching "Explorer" I see profiles on "C:\Documents and Settings\profilename"...
"flast.DOMAINNAME" is the newly-created one (that "f" as in first-initial, "last" as in last-name "dot" DOMAINNAME). Creation-date on the folder is this morning (just about when he logged in... imagine that!), and it has none of the user's customizations.
But right beside it is the another profile, "FLast" (no domain suffix), WITH the customizations the user has made...
Note the differences in capitalization; I'm not sure they are (or aren't) relevant, but "flast.DOMAINNAME" is the WRONG profile and "FLast" is the right one...
Logging into the computer, only a login to "DOMAINNAME" works; logging in as that user to "This Computer" fails.
Checking the profile on the server, I see neither explicitly listed.
Hints? Tips? Solutions? Derisive (but correct) pointers to the Right Answer... all willingly accepted.
- Steve
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Re: Win2Kpro - Existing user gets newuser profile...?
Fri, March 23, 2007 - 12:31 PMWell the original one would be the one without the domain name attached. Windows would have created the new one if there was some problem with the old one. Have you tried copying the settings over from the original profile? -
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Re: Win2Kpro - Existing user gets newuser profile...?
Fri, March 23, 2007 - 1:57 PM
> Well the original one would be the one without the domain name attached.
> Windows would have created the new one if there was some problem with the old one.
Any idea what that "some problem" might have been, and whether it could be fixed directly?
> Have you tried copying the settings over from the original profile?
No, I was hoping to re-activate the original. There are per-application customizations (e.g. AutoCAD) which (so far as I know) can't be copied over from the administrator/Explorer level... they have to be explicitly exported from the app running under the old profile, before they can be used by the new profile.
- Steve
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Re: Win2Kpro - Existing user gets newuser profile...?
Fri, March 23, 2007 - 2:00 PMI have run into this from time to time as well. Unfortunately, I never really get past the "something is wrong with the original profile". And with me it is almost always Windows 2000.
Rather than find a root cause I have simply logged in with a local admin account, and copied over all of the data from the original profile. And then it probably won't happen again for a long time. The computer would probably be replaced before it would happen again.
Just make sure you grab all of the items in the hidden system folders like Outlook .pst files if they apply to your situation. Try to copy over as much as you can, including cookies, favorites, etc, to try to get the orignal profile back to the way it was. -
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Re: Win2Kpro - Existing user gets newuser profile...?
Fri, March 23, 2007 - 7:13 PMCould be a problem with one of the ini files, or a number of other things.
The customizations should be in the application folders under the profile, so may transfer fine when you copy them.
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Re: Win2Kpro - Existing user gets newuser profile...?
Fri, March 23, 2007 - 7:33 PMShort simple and sweet... The profile was corrupted. When Windows detects corrupt profile, it creates a new one.
You cant recover back to the profile because something, typically the users ntuser.dat (personal registry and account settings) file was corrupted. You can recover "Local and Application data" but any local registry settings configured for the user are gone. -
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Re: Win2Kpro - Existing user gets newuser profile...?
Sat, March 24, 2007 - 6:53 AMI'll second Sean. It's a corrupt profile. At my last job we migrated the entire office over to a new domain controller, because the old one died a horrible death in a "DoS" attack," and in one night (about fifty+ users) had to log each user in manually to copy over profile data. Each time the user.DOMAINNAME folders were created. There were several workstations that already had those folders in Documents & Settings so it created a user1.DOMAINNAME folder.
All of the workstations in question were upgraded from Windows 2000 to Windows XP and used Active Directory on a Windows 2003 Server.
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