R
Rob
I'm running Vista business (x86) on 2 machines at work. We're running
SBS 2003 (non-R2).
On both machines everything in the main user's folder is occasionally
getting erased. (My) Documents, Pictures, Music, Downloads, Favorites,
Desktop, etc are all gone. It's like Vista deletes the entire user
folder, then re-creates a new one - links to sample pictures and
sample music are the only thing left.
This has happened to me personally on 2 seperate occasions. Being the
Network Admin, I have a dual-boot setup with Vista on the D: drive to
learn it and make sure our network will be ready for normal users.
The first time my profile was deleted I was upset, but wrote it off as
a fluke.
The 2nd time it happened was with our only resident mac user, who's
running Vista Business under Parallels. Luckily it was not a big
problem, since it's only used for access to the company MIS.
Today it happened a 3rd time, again on my machine. I have been using
Vista as my primary OS for over a month, it will take me hours to
reconfigure everything.
I know so far there's not much to run on, obviously Vista is working
fine for others in a SBS environment, I didn't find anyone else with
this problem with a quick google search. I thought after the 2nd time
it might be related to activation, since the first 2 times each
machine was wiped out about the same time as it was activated.
This third time though, my machine was still running the same install
as before, the machine had been activated a long time ago. However,
something else strange did happen last night which may also be related
(or just a red herring).
I was fixing a different client's VPN (the SBS 2003 SP2 RSS problem),
so I used RWW to log into my workstation here to test the VPN to the
client's server. I successfully logged into the RWW webpage using my
login/password, and connected to my Vista machine. When I entered in
my password to log into my machine however, the log in failed. I
tried 3 times to make sure I entered in my password correctly, I'm
positive I typed it in correctly. Unsure of why it wasn't working, I
chose 'switch user', re-typed my user name and password (although
using the "pre-windows 2000" domain name which is slightly shorter),
which was accepted. Everything was normal after that, I still had my
desktop at least. I forgot to log out though (which meant the VPN was
left connected overnight). The next morning I logged back into the
session locally, but explorer had crashed overnight. I tried closing
explorer, and re-running it through task manager, but it seemed as if
explorer crashed again, I still couldn't click on the start button,
and the task manager reported explorer was hung again. At that point,
I decided to reboot. Logging in took an exceptionally long time, and
once in I was greeted with the 'clean install' look because my user
folder was wiped.
I've checked the event logs, nothing important really stands out, my
failed log in attempts from last night didn't seem to be logged. The
shadow copy service did warn about failing to make a restore point.
Does anyone have any tips for me to figure out what's happening?
Eventually I'll have to add other Vista computers in the office,
obviously I won't do that until I'm satisfied this problem is fixed...
SBS 2003 (non-R2).
On both machines everything in the main user's folder is occasionally
getting erased. (My) Documents, Pictures, Music, Downloads, Favorites,
Desktop, etc are all gone. It's like Vista deletes the entire user
folder, then re-creates a new one - links to sample pictures and
sample music are the only thing left.
This has happened to me personally on 2 seperate occasions. Being the
Network Admin, I have a dual-boot setup with Vista on the D: drive to
learn it and make sure our network will be ready for normal users.
The first time my profile was deleted I was upset, but wrote it off as
a fluke.
The 2nd time it happened was with our only resident mac user, who's
running Vista Business under Parallels. Luckily it was not a big
problem, since it's only used for access to the company MIS.
Today it happened a 3rd time, again on my machine. I have been using
Vista as my primary OS for over a month, it will take me hours to
reconfigure everything.
I know so far there's not much to run on, obviously Vista is working
fine for others in a SBS environment, I didn't find anyone else with
this problem with a quick google search. I thought after the 2nd time
it might be related to activation, since the first 2 times each
machine was wiped out about the same time as it was activated.
This third time though, my machine was still running the same install
as before, the machine had been activated a long time ago. However,
something else strange did happen last night which may also be related
(or just a red herring).
I was fixing a different client's VPN (the SBS 2003 SP2 RSS problem),
so I used RWW to log into my workstation here to test the VPN to the
client's server. I successfully logged into the RWW webpage using my
login/password, and connected to my Vista machine. When I entered in
my password to log into my machine however, the log in failed. I
tried 3 times to make sure I entered in my password correctly, I'm
positive I typed it in correctly. Unsure of why it wasn't working, I
chose 'switch user', re-typed my user name and password (although
using the "pre-windows 2000" domain name which is slightly shorter),
which was accepted. Everything was normal after that, I still had my
desktop at least. I forgot to log out though (which meant the VPN was
left connected overnight). The next morning I logged back into the
session locally, but explorer had crashed overnight. I tried closing
explorer, and re-running it through task manager, but it seemed as if
explorer crashed again, I still couldn't click on the start button,
and the task manager reported explorer was hung again. At that point,
I decided to reboot. Logging in took an exceptionally long time, and
once in I was greeted with the 'clean install' look because my user
folder was wiped.
I've checked the event logs, nothing important really stands out, my
failed log in attempts from last night didn't seem to be logged. The
shadow copy service did warn about failing to make a restore point.
Does anyone have any tips for me to figure out what's happening?
Eventually I'll have to add other Vista computers in the office,
obviously I won't do that until I'm satisfied this problem is fixed...