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Windows 2000 Server and Professional environment.
Users profile path set to shared folder on server over which they have full control.
User deletes an item from his desktop; when he logs out and back in, the item returns.
The item is deleted from his local c:\documents and settings\user\desktop folder, but not from the desktop folder on the shared folder that contains his profile. When he reboots, the server version overwrites the local version, and his deleted shortcut reappears
How do I fix this

Thank you
Mark
 
Mark said:
Windows 2000 Server and Professional environment.
Users profile path set to shared folder on server over which they have full control.
User deletes an item from his desktop; when he logs out and back in, the item returns.
The item is deleted from his local c:\documents and settings\user\desktop
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folder, but not from the desktop folder on the shared folder that contains
his profile. When he reboots, the server version overwrites the local
version, and his deleted shortcut reappears.
How do I fix this.

Thank you,
Mark
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You need to look in detail at your "Roaming Profiles" and how you have
configured them.
 
There is a fair amount about roaming user's profile - my trusty text book
(Zero Administration for Windows, Chris Zacker, O'Reilly) devotes some six
pages to the subject. It deals with items such as

- Server based "Default User" profile (do you have one of those?)
- Mandatory profiles (they prevent users from changing their profile)
- Access rights (if users have read-only access rights to their server-based
profiles then they will not be able to save any changes).

These are the types of things you need to look into in order to resolve the
issue. Here is another text book on the subject:

Zero Administration Kit for Windows
Michael McInerney
Microsoft Technology Series


Mark said:
There doesn't seem to be a whole lot to look at in the setup of my user's roaming profiles.
The user's profile properties, under AD Users and Computers/Users, are as follows:
USER PROFILE
Profile Path: //servername/USERS/username
Logon Script: logusr.bat
HOME FOLDER
Connect "P" to://servername/username

The share permissions on the shared folder "username" are left at the
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default - full control for everyone.
 
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