User Profile Question

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Am setting up user profiles ... 1st time. My goal ... I have a user's profile on a Windows 2000 computer. The profile is of course under documents and settings. The profile was created when the user logged on locally. Now I want to join the user to the domain and have the users existing profile and desktop the same as when they logged on locally. I set up a shared folder on the server and from the users PC in System, copied the users profile to that folder. I then went to the user in Active Directory and put the following path into the user profile \\server\user. I then log off the user PC that I have joined to the domain and log back into the domain as the active directory user that has the above profile ... I am hoping the profile I copied will be used, but it is not ... I am given a message when loggin on that it can't use the profile. What have I configured wrong

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Did you give the user rights to the share you created? Is your goal t
use roaming profiles?

When I use roaming profiles I store the profiles in the netlogo
directory and set the profile path in AD to the following:
%logonserver%\netlogon\profilename

Where profilename is the name of the folder where their profile i
stored.

*Am setting up user profiles ... 1st time. My goal ... I have
user's profile on a Windows 2000 computer. The profile is of cours
under documents and settings. The profile was created when the use
logged on locally. Now I want to join the user to th
e domain and have the users existing profile and desktop the same a
when they logged on locally. I set up a shared folder on the serve
and from the users PC in System, copied the users profile to tha
folder. I then went to the user in Active Director
y and put the following path into the user profile \\server\user.
then log off the user PC that I have joined to the domain and lo
back into the domain as the active directory user that has the abov
profile ... I am hoping the profile I copied will b
e used, but it is not ... I am given a message when loggin on that i
can't use the profile. What have I configured wrong?

Thanks
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Here is what I am getting as I try to log onto the network server ... Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you logoff. Possible causes of this error include network problems or insufficient security rights. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator. Here is what I have done. I have set up a shared folder on the server called "UserProfiles." Then I copy the PC's local user policy for user CKJR to the UserProfile shared folder (BTY, when I do this copy, what should the "Permitted to use" be? ... wondering if this is the problem). This creates a folder in the "UserProfiles" folder called "CKJR" This is the profile I want to use for the domain Active Directory user, CKJR. I have gone to that users profile and entered \\domainname\UserProfiles\CKJR (have tried the profile path without the CKJR too). Then I go to the workstation (or I suppose any work station on the network) and log on as CKJR to domain "domainname" .... it is not using the CKJR profile I copied to the shared directory on the server ... Anything you see I am missing here?

----- wylie wrote: ----

When creating roaming user profiles make sure the directory on the server is shared and the user has permissions to read and write to the folder (it is recommended that you give the user full control, that is the default permission given if you use \\server\{sharename}\%username%). Also be sure that in the path you provide in the Profile Path for the user is the \\server\{sharename}. You do not need to use absolute paths in 2000

Hope that helps.
 
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