Roaming Profiles and Access

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Craig Powell

G'Day all,

Little problem in a classroom environment. 2K Server is
DC and all 12 machines are hardware identical and
software and XP OS comes from one image and then Ghosted
out to all machines. All student profiles are roaming
profiles held on DC. All profiles were created from one
that I started with and then copied to make the rest. On
some profiles, not all, we are starting to get Event ID
1000 errors with MS Access. Once this starts happening it
does not stop. However, just to make things interesting,
sometimes, not always, a user can work sucessfully on
some computers not others. On the other computers, this
problem will not let them use Access at all. Some users
can't work on any computer. Other users don'y have any
problem working on any computer. It doesn't seem to make
any difference how you start Access, finding the file in
explorer and double clicking or starting Access from the
Start menu, all give the same results. Usually this
behaviour starts when a student tries to reopen a file
they were working on recently. An error message that the
file was corrupt and do we want to try and recover it
appears, doesn't seem to make any difference what option
you take and after that, no more access to Access.
Deleting and then recreating the profile works as long as
you don't try to make another profile with that same
name. Does anyone have an idea of what is going on? I
have a feeling it has something to do with the roaming
profiles on the DC but I have not been able to find any
help anywhere else.

All help appreciated
Craig Powell
Association f/t Blind W.A.
 
I'm not sure if this is an Access-specific issue or a problem that's just
manifesting itself in Access.

The question that springs to my mind is how you created the template
profile. Did you just dive into the Documents and Settings folder, grab the
profile directory you'd just configured and copy it up to the server, or did
you use the copy profile functionality in My Computer | Properties |
Advanced | User Profiles? If the latter, what did you set for "permitted to
use"?

It sounds a little like users aren't able to write to their profiles.

Also, does anything of note show up in either the application or system
event logs?

Regards

Oli
 
Thanks for your response Oli, its the only one I've had.
The way I created the profiles was on the DC using AD
Users and Computers. When the user logs on for the first
time to the domain the rest is created then. The only
thing I really changed with the profiles is the location
of the home directory. I put it on D: drive rather than
C:. I agree with you that this seems more than an Access
issue. I feel it has something to do with the profiles
themselves. Something in the profile is becoming corrupted
or permissions are getting scrambled or something along
those lines.

When you said "Also, does anything of note show up in
either the application or system event logs?" Do you mean
on the client or the DC? On the client I get an
application error of event id 1000 from Microsoft Office
10. On the DC I get nothing. I just went and played around
with one particular profile again that has been exhibiting
these symptoms. I'm now more convinced than ever that the
problem is actually with the profile not Access. The users
home directory on \\classroom-server\D\home (H:)drive is
letting the administrator look at what is in that
directory on this particular profile. I can't look at any
of the others, which is the way it is supposed to be I
think. I cannot find any other difference between the bad
profile and the rest. As admin I have access to something
I shouldn't on this one profile.

I have only tried deleting the profile and then making
another with the same name straight away. This doesn't
work as I get the same problem with the newly made profile
as before. What would happen If I delete the profile and
then reboot before making it again? I wouldn't have
thought a reboot of the DC should make any difference as
far as this goes but I'm willing to try anything by now.

Thanks again Oli,
Craig Powell
Association f/t Blind W.A.
 
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