Manually Copied Profiles

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John Winslet

Hi,

I have recently migrated a domain from Windows NT 4.0 to
Windows 2003 server with a different domain name. I
manually copied user profiles across so users could keep
settings in new domain. I had to rename the dirs from
<username.old-domain> to <username.new-domain>. This
worked fine where users were local administrators on their
systems. When users are just domain users, you login and
it moans about all sorts of thing. Basically none of the
office apps work and the desktop background does not load
aswell as other things. If I make them an admin it works.
I am sure its permissions, but not on the disk as I have
tried this on a FAT32 system. I think it permissions on
the HKey_Current_User but am not sure, I guess I need to
assign registry permissions to that user in the registry
but dont know where!
 
Users should have "Full Control" permissions on their respective hive.

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| Hi,
|
| I have recently migrated a domain from Windows NT 4.0 to
| Windows 2003 server with a different domain name. I
| manually copied user profiles across so users could keep
| settings in new domain. I had to rename the dirs from
| <username.old-domain> to <username.new-domain>. This
| worked fine where users were local administrators on their
| systems. When users are just domain users, you login and
| it moans about all sorts of thing. Basically none of the
| office apps work and the desktop background does not load
| aswell as other things. If I make them an admin it works.
| I am sure its permissions, but not on the disk as I have
| tried this on a FAT32 system. I think it permissions on
| the HKey_Current_User but am not sure, I guess I need to
| assign registry permissions to that user in the registry
| but dont know where!
 
You are not clear about the os on the workstations. you speak about fat32.
you have the os installed on fat32? Also w2k can be installed on that but it
has limited security and permission options. Anyway if its w2k you can go to
the my computer, on the desktop, and properties and copy the profile from the
users tab which you see their. Thats the way to copy profiles. First make a
new map in the documents and setting map and then copy the old info, logged
on as local admin, via the my computer icon on the desktop.

I dont know if i will be reading yr replies in the coming days. Good luck
and cherrrio.
 
Hi,

The workstation O/S is Windows 2000 Pro. I have tried the
problems with FAT32 and NTFS formatted hard disk and still
the problem. If your part of the admins group it allows
the profile to work, even if it FAT32 (no permissions you
think), so there are obviously permissions set in the
registry.

Your point about creating new profiles etc and copying my
docs etc is true enough, but is not a good solution - I'm
talking about 100 users.
I need to narrow down what keys in the registry need to be
set. I know they are under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, I may try
setting that user to full control at the root!!
 
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