I messed up with domains and account profiles

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Mortz

Hi...
I took a PC out from its original domain (for which I dont
have a physical connection any more) and all accounts from
that domain are now "unknown" but they local profile
directories remain. As I needed the information from one
of them I created a new "Local User" and redirected its
profile to the "unknown" account directory and it seems to
work, how ever it takes too long to login (loading
settings).

I will be able to re-insert the PC to its original domain,
(later on) and I was wondering if it will automatically
recognize the "unknown" accounts, but more important if
the copied account will have any problem because its
profile directory its shared between two accounts (the
currently unknown account and the local one)?

Im planning to erase the local user before re-inserting
the PC to the domain, however I can't afford to lose any
information (specially my .PST files)... Does anyone have
any suggestions...? How can I decrease the time it takes
for the profile to load right now?

Thansk for any help you may provide...
 
I am not sure what you mean by redirecting. If you are just telling an
application to refer to another my documents folder to open and save
applications, then I doubt there will be much of a problem. If you changed a
registry setting, I am not sure what you could expect. I believe that the
"unknown" profiles should be recognized when you rejoin the domain. However
be sure to back up everything on that computer in case there is a problem.
The usual way of accessing another profile is to logon as an administrator
and using system proprties/advanced/user profiles copy the old profile over
to the new user being sure to give the new user permissions to it. That will
also leave the old profile intact. --- Steve
 
Hi, Thanks for your prompt replay...

By redirecting I mean I used the Advanced account
management to set the new user's profile path to the old
profile directory...

Thank you for your advice... Do you know why is it taking
to long to load the settings?... Im talking about 10
minutes for a P3 1.0GHz machine... I got a .PST file about
500MB, however it shouldn't be a problem for the profile
loader, just for the outlook97...
 
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